Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Wilt thou confide in him, that he will bring home thy seed, And gatherthe grainof thy threshing-floor?
WEB
Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?
YLT
Dost thou trust in him That he doth bring back thy seed? And to thy threshing-floor doth gather it ?
DBT
Wilt thou trust him to bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy threshing-floor?
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.