Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Because it shut not up the doors of mymother’swomb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
WEB
For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.
YLT
Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.
DBT
Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.
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.