Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.
WEB
Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.
YLT
Turn back, I pray you, let it not be perverseness, Yea, turn back again--my righteousness is in it.
DBT
Return, I pray you, let there be no wrong; yea, return again, my righteousness shall be in it.
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.