Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.
WEB
What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?
YLT
Also--the power of their hands, why is it to me? On them hath old age perished.
DBT
Yea, whereto [should] the strength of their hands [profit] me, [men] in whom vigour hath perished?
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.