Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
WEB
They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
YLT
They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth.
DBT
They turn the needy out of the way: the afflicted of the land all hide themselves.
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.