Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
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4 additional translationsASV
Orwho shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb;
WEB
Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
YLT
And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.
DBT
And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing out of the womb?
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.