Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
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4 additional translationsASV
ThenGodis gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.
WEB
to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found his ransom,’
YLT
Then He doth favour him and saith, `Ransom him from going down to the pit, I have found an atonement.'
DBT
Then he will be gracious unto him, and say, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
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.