Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceiveth a man, will ye deceive him?
WEB
Would it be well when He examined you? Could you deceive Him like a man?
YLT
Is it good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him?
DBT
Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one mocketh at a man, will ye mock at him?
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.