Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Behold, I go forward, but he is notthere; And backward, but I cannot perceive him;
WEB
If I go east, He is not there, and if I go west, I cannot find Him.
YLT
Lo, forward I go--and He is not, And backward--and I perceive him not.
DBT
Lo, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I do not perceive him;
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.