Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?
WEB
Why do I put myself at risk and take my life in my own hands?
YLT
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?
DBT
Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
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.