Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Saying, Surely they that did rise up against us are cut off, And the remnant of them the fire hath consumed.
WEB
‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire has consumed their excess.’
YLT
`Surely our substance hath not been cut off, And their excellency hath fire consumed.'
DBT
Is not he who rose against us destroyed, and doth not the fire consume his residue?
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.