Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsOr have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof
if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—
And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it,
Or have eaten my morsel alone, so that the fatherless ate not thereof,
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.