Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?
WEB
Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up?
YLT
Is it declared to Him that I speak? If a man hath spoken, surely he is swallowed up.
DBT
Shall it be told him if I would speak? if a man [so] say, surely he shall be swallowed up.
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.