Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
His bones are full of his youth, But it shall lie down with him in the dust.
WEB
The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.
YLT
His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down.
DBT
His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.
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.