Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
For she leaveth her eggs on the earth, And warmeth them in the dust,
WEB
For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.
YLT
For she leaveth on the earth her eggs, And on the dust she doth warm them,
DBT
For she leaveth her eggs to the earth, and warmeth them in the dust,
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.