And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
But the mountain falling cometh to nought; And the rock is removed out of its place;
WEB
But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place,
YLT
And yet, a falling mountain wasteth away, And a rock is removed from its place.
DBT
And indeed a mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of its place;
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.