Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
They arechildren of fools, yea, children of base men; They were scourged out of the land.
WEB
A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.
YLT
Sons of folly--even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land.
DBT
Sons of fools, and sons of nameless sires, they are driven out of the land.
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.