Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.
WEB
Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
YLT
For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And to the house appointed for all living.
DBT
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and into the house of assemblage for all living.
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.