Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?
WEB
Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
YLT
The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed?
DBT
Art thou the first man that was born? and wast thou brought forth before the hills?
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.