Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!
WEB
“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
YLT
O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!
DBT
Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
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.