Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.
WEB
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
YLT
Your remembrances are similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.
DBT
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your bulwarks are bulwarks of mire.
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.