Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the ghost.
WEB
Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die.
YLT
Who is he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.
DBT
Who is he that contendeth with me? For if I were silent now, I should expire.
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.