He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translationsHe taketh away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, And causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
Turning aside the heart Of the heads of the people of the land, And he causeth them to wander In vacancy--no way!
He taketh away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste.
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.