Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And thepainsthat gnaw me take no rest.
WEB
Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.
YLT
At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down.
DBT
The night pierceth through my bones [and detacheth them] from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest:
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.