Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.
KJV
Parallel translations
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4 additional translationsASV
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
WEB
Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.
YLT
For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.
DBT
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he hidden the gloom 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.