He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.
WEB
He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.
YLT
He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom.
DBT
He shall shake off his unripe grapes as a vine, and shall cast his flower as an olive.
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.