Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
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4 additional translationsASV
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
WEB
Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
YLT
Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off?
DBT
Remember, I pray thee, who that was innocent has perished? and where were the upright cut off?
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.