Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor;
WEB
The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
YLT
They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge.
DBT
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:
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.