Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
WEB
“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
YLT
Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days?
DBT
Hath not man a life of labour upon earth? and are not his days like the days of a hireling?
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.