Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, The thunderings of his pavilion?
WEB
Furthermore, who can understand how the clouds spread out, how the thunder roars from His pavilion?
YLT
Yea, doth any understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His tabernacle?
DBT
But can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the crashing of his pavilion?
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.