Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Out of the chamberof the south cometh the storm, And cold out of the north.
WEB
The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.
YLT
From the inner chamber cometh a hurricane, And from scatterings winds--cold,
DBT
From the chamber [of the south] cometh the whirlwind; and cold from the winds of the north.
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.