And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsthat there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them;
a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,
And a messenger hath come in unto Job and saith, `The oxen have been plowing, and the she-asses feeding by their sides,
And there came a messenger to Job and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses feeding beside them;
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.