Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsWEB
Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!
ASV
Doubtless, thou knowest, for thou wast then born, And the number of thy days is great!
YLT
Thou hast known--for then thou art born And the number of thy days are many!
DBT
Thou knowest, for thou wast then born, and the number of thy days is great!
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.