Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Behold, he seizeth the prey, who can hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?
WEB
If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’
YLT
Lo, He snatches away, who bringeth it back? Who saith unto Him, `What dost Thou?'
DBT
Behold, he taketh away: who will hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?
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.