Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Once have I spoken, and I will not answer; Yea, twice, but I will proceed no further.
WEB
I have spoken once, but I have no answer— twice, but I have nothing to add.”
YLT
Once I have spoken, and I answer not, And twice, and I add not.
DBT
Once have I spoken, and I will not answer; yea twice, but I will proceed no further.
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.