Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Is it by thy wisdom that the hawk soareth, And stretcheth her wings toward the south?
WEB
Does the hawk take flight by your understanding and spread his wings toward the south?
YLT
By thine understanding flieth a hawk? Spreadeth he his wings to the south?
DBT
Doth the hawk fly by thine intelligence, [and] stretch his wings toward the south?
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.