And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house,
One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
And the day is, that his sons and his daughters are eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their brother, the first-born.
And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the firstborn.
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.