Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
It is not the great that are wise, Nor the aged that understand justice.
WEB
It is not only the old who are wise, or the elderly who understand justice.
YLT
The multitude are not wise, Nor do the aged understand judgment.
DBT
It is not the great that are wise; neither do the aged understand judgment.
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.