He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
WEB
He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
YLT
As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,
DBT
He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is chased away as a vision of the night.
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.