Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven,
WEB
Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens
YLT
Who doth number the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, Who doth cause to lie down,
DBT
Who numbereth the clouds with wisdom? or who poureth out the bottles of the heavens,
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.