Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Howbeit doth not one stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
WEB
Yet no one stretches out his hand to a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.
YLT
Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety.
DBT
Indeed, no prayer [availeth] when he stretcheth out [his] hand: though they cry when he destroyeth.
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.