Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
WEB
Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.
YLT
The borders they reach, A drove they have taken violently away, Yea, they do evil.
DBT
They remove the landmarks; they violently take away the flocks and pasture them;
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.