Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsYLT
Who doth make me as in months past, As in the days of God's preserving me?
ASV
Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;
WEB
“How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,
DBT
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days whenGod preserved me;
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.