What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
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4 additional translationsASV
What time they wax warm, they vanish; When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
WEB
but ceasing in the dry season and vanishing from their channels in the heat.
YLT
By the time they are warm they have been cut off, By its being hot they have been Extinguished from their place.
DBT
At the time they diminish, they are dried up; when heat affecteth them, they vanish from their place:
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.