That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsWEB
so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?
ASV
That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, And that thou shouldest discern the paths to the house thereof?
YLT
That thou dost take it unto its boundary, And that thou dost understand The paths of its house.
DBT
That thou shouldest take it to its bound, and that thou shouldest know the paths to its house?
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.