For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.
WEB
Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
YLT
With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,
DBT
Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:
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.