Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Ye say, God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it:
WEB
It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.
YLT
God layeth up for his sons his sorrow, He giveth recompense unto him--and he knoweth.
DBT
God layeth up [the punishment of] his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it]:
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.