Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Let mine enemy be as the wicked, And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous.
WEB
May my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unjust.
YLT
As the wicked is my enemy, And my withstander as the perverse.
DBT
Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
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.