Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch:
WEB
My roots will spread out to the waters, and the dew will rest nightly on my branches.
YLT
My root is open unto the waters, And dew doth lodge on my branch.
DBT
My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch;
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.