If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
WEB
“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
YLT
Hath one tried a word with thee? --Thou art weary! And to keep in words who is able?
DBT
If a word were essayed to thee, wouldest thou be grieved? But who can refrain from speaking?
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.