My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsDBT
My breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my [mother's] womb.
ASV
My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.
WEB
My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
YLT
My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favours to the sons of my mother's womb.
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.