Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
But none saith, Where is God my Maker, Who giveth songs in the night,
WEB
But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
YLT
And none said, `Where is God my maker? Giving songs in the night,
DBT
But none saith, Where isGod my Maker, who giveth songs in the night,
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.