Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor!
WEB
Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!
YLT
And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend.
DBT
Oh that there were arbitration for a man withGod, as a son of man for his friend!
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.