Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, And searchest after my sin,
WEB
that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—
YLT
That Thou inquirest for mine iniquity, And for my sin seekest?
DBT
That thou searchest after mine iniquity, and inquirest into my sin;
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.