Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
WEB
Indeed, we have investigated, and it is true! So hear it and know for yourself.”
YLT
Lo, this--we searched it out--it is right, hearken; And thou, know for thyself!
DBT
Behold this, we have searched it out, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thyself.
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.