Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
WEB
Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
YLT
Lo, not in their hand is their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)
DBT
Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me!
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.