Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
He scorneth the tumult of the city, Neither heareth he the shoutings of the driver.
WEB
He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.
YLT
He doth laugh at the multitude of a city, The cries of an exactor he heareth not.
DBT
He laugheth at the tumult of the city, and heareth not the shouts of the driver;
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.