If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
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4 additional translationsASV
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, If thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.
WEB
If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents
YLT
If thou dost return unto the Mighty Thou art built up, Thou puttest iniquity far from thy tents.
DBT
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up. If thou remove unrighteousness far from thy tents,
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.