Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? Or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
WEB
Can you count the months they are pregnant? Do you know the time they give birth?
YLT
Thou dost number the months they fulfil? And thou hast known the time of their bringing forth!
DBT
Dost thou number the months that they fulfil? and knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
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.