After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
And Job liveth after this a hundred and forty years, and seeth his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations;
And Job lived after this a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.
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.