Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
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4 additional translationsASV
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?
WEB
he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
YLT
As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: `Where is he?'
DBT
Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
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.