Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
WEB
Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
YLT
They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,
DBT
Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
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.