I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsI also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you.
I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head.
I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you;
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.