Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat upon his loins;
WEB
Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh,
YLT
For he hath covered his face with his fat, And maketh vigour over his confidence.
DBT
For he hath covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon [his] flanks.
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.