Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.
DBT
Behold, I cry out of wrong, and I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
WEB
Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
YLT
Lo, I cry out--violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.
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.