Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsYea, I attended unto you, And, behold, there was none that convinced Job, Or that answered his words, among you.
I paid you full attention. But no one proved Job wrong; not one of you rebutted his arguments.
And unto you I attend, And lo, there is no reasoner for Job, Or answerer of his sayings among you.
Yea, I gave you mine attention, and behold, there was none of you that confuted Job, that answered his words;
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.