What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
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4 additional translationsASV
What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
WEB
What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
YLT
What is man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?
DBT
What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
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.