Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, They cast out their pains.
WEB
They crouch down and bring forth their young; they deliver their newborn.
YLT
They bow down, Their young ones they bring forth safely, Their pangs they cast forth.
DBT
They bow themselves, they give birth to their young ones, they cast out their pains;
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.