Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Who hath enjoined him his way? Or who can say, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?
WEB
Who has appointed His way for Him, or told Him, ‘You have done wrong’?
YLT
Who hath appointed unto Him his way? And who said, `Thou hast done iniquity?'
DBT
Who hath appointed him his way? or who hath said, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?
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.