Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Have ye not asked wayfaring men? And do ye not know their evidences,
WEB
Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?
YLT
Have ye not asked those passing by the way? And their signs do ye not know?
DBT
Have ye not asked the wayfarers? and do ye not regard their tokens:
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.