Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
The caravansthat travelby the way of them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish.
WEB
Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.
YLT
Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.
DBT
They wind about in the paths of their course, they go off into the waste and perish.
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.