Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak; I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
WEB
You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak. I will question you, and you shall inform Me.’
YLT
`Hear, I pray thee, and I--I do speak, I ask thee, and cause thou me to know.'
DBT
Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and inform me.
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.