Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil!
WEB
when my steps were bathed in cream and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
YLT
When washing my goings with butter, And the firm rock is with me rivulets of oil.
DBT
When my steps were bathed in milk, and the rock poured out beside me rivers of oil! ...
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.