Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare raiment as the clay;
WEB
Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,
YLT
If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing,
DBT
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
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.