For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
That thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee? And, What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?
WEB
For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
YLT
For thou sayest, `What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'
DBT
For thou hast asked of what profit it is unto thee: what do I gain more than if I had sinned?
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.