Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThou renewest thy witnesses against me, And increasest thine indignation upon me: Changes and warfare are with me.
You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.
Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare are with me.
Thou renewest thy witnesses before me and increasest thy displeasure against me; successions [of evil] and a time of toil are with 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.