For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsFor the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!
When together, morning is to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.
For the morning is to them all [as] the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.
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.