Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Are thy days as the days of man, Or thy years as man’s days,
WEB
Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,
YLT
As the days of man are Thy days? Thy years as the days of a man?
DBT
Are thy days as the days of a mortal? are thy years as a man's days,
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.