Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Why dost thou strive against him, For that he giveth not account of any of his matters?
WEB
Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?
YLT
Wherefore against Him hast thou striven, When for all His matters He answereth not?
DBT
Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
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.