Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he hath done?
WEB
Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?
YLT
Who doth declare to his face his way? And for that which he hath done, Who doth give recompence to him?
DBT
Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
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.