Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
(For my life is yet whole in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
WEB
as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,
YLT
For all the while my breath is in me, And the spirit of God in my nostrils.
DBT
All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit ofGod is in my nostrils,
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.