The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
WEB
A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.
YLT
`All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.
DBT
All his days the wicked man is tormented, and numbered years are allotted to the violent.
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.