Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
So that they dwell in frightful valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks.
WEB
so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.
YLT
In a frightful place of valleys to dwell, Holes of earth and clefts.
DBT
To dwell in gloomy gorges, in caves of the earth and the rocks:
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.