Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Then the beasts go into coverts, And remain in their dens.
WEB
The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens.
YLT
And enter doth the beast into covert, And in its habitations it doth continue.
DBT
And the wild beast goeth into its lair, and they remain in their dens.
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.