Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone.
WEB
then may my arm fall from my shoulder and be torn from its socket.
YLT
My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken.
DBT
[Then] let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone!
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.