He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.
DBT
He breaketh me down on every side, and I am gone; and my hope hath he torn up as a tree.
WEB
He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.
YLT
He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentJob — The canonical wisdom-literature interrogation of undeserved suffering. A prose frame enclosing three cycles of dialogue, a late Elihu interrupt, and a whirlwind theophany that does not answer the question — it relativizes it.
- Author
- Anonymous. Talmudic tradition names Moses (Bava Batra 14b); internal features (patriarchal setting, no Mosaic Law reference, Job sacrificing as family head, *qesitah* currency of Gen 33:19) suggest patriarchal-era composition or at least tradition-origin.
- Date
- Traditional: patriarchal period, c. 2000–1800 BC. Critical proposals scatter across pre-exilic to post-exilic. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer takes the position.