Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsDBT
Oh would that my words were written! oh that they were inscribed in a book!
ASV
Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
WEB
I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,
YLT
Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth grant that in a book they may be graven?
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.