Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsYLT
Man hath not known its arrangement, Nor is it found in the land of the living.
ASV
Man knoweth not the price thereof; Neither is it found in the land of the living.
WEB
No man can know its value, nor is it found in the land of the living.
DBT
Man knoweth not the value thereof; and it is not found in the land of the living.
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.