Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Or, Deliver me from the adversary’s hand? Or, Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?
WEB
deliver me from the hand of the enemy; redeem me from the grasp of the ruthless’?
YLT
And, Deliver me from the hand of an adversary? And, From the hand of terrible ones ransom me?
DBT
Or, rescue me from the hand of the oppressor, and redeem me from the hand of the violent?
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.