In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.
WEB
In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.
YLT
He hath dug in the darkness--houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.
DBT
In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light:
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.