Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
The waters hide themselvesand becomelike stone, And the face of the deep is frozen.
WEB
when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?
YLT
As a stone waters are hidden, And the face of the deep is captured.
DBT
When the waters lie hidden as in stone, and the face of the deep holdeth fast together.
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.