Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Thinkest thou this to be thy right, Or sayest thou, My righteousness is more than God’s,
WEB
“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
YLT
This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said--`My righteousness is more than God's?'
DBT
Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more thanGod's?
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.