Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Out of his nostrils a smoke goeth, As of a boiling pot and burning rushes.
WEB
Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
YLT
Out of his nostrils goeth forth smoke, As a blown pot and reeds.
DBT
Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a boiling pot and cauldron.
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.