I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou artmy mother, and my sister;
WEB
and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
YLT
To corruption I have called: --`Thou art my father.' `My mother' and `my sister' --to the worm.
DBT
I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!
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.