MANNAFEST

The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.

KJV

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ASV

(The sojourner hath not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the traveller);

WEB

but no stranger had to lodge on the street, for my door has been open to the traveler—

YLT

In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open.

DBT

The stranger did not lodge without; I opened my doors to the pathway.

About this book

Old Testament

JobThe 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.

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