Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer;
WEB
If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’
YLT
Though I say, `I forget my talking, I forsake my corner, and I brighten up!'
DBT
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my [sad] countenance, and brighten up,
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.