Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Though he spare it, and will not let it go, But keep it still within his mouth;
WEB
though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,
YLT
Hath pity on it, and doth not forsake it, And keep it back in the midst of his palate,
DBT
[Though] he spare it, and forsake it not, but keep it within his mouth,
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.