They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsthey have hands, but cannot feel; they have feet, but cannot walk; they cannot even clear their throats.
They have hands, but they handle not; Feet have they, but they walk not; Neither speak they through their throat.
Their hands, but they handle not, Their feet, and they walk not;
They have hands, and they handle not; feet have they, and they walk not; they give no sound through their throat.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentPsalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.
- Author
- David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
- Date
- Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.