If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
WEB
if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,
YLT
If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out,
DBT
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners:
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.