Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Canst thou send forth lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are?
WEB
Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
YLT
Dost thou send out lightnings, and they go And say unto thee, `Behold us?'
DBT
Dost thou send forth lightnings that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?
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.