Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
He hath redeemed my soul from going into the pit, And my life shall behold the light.
WEB
He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will live to see the light.’
YLT
He hath ransomed my soul From going over into the pit, And my life on the light looketh.'
DBT
He hath delivered my soul from going into the pit, and my life shall see the light.
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.