Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;
WEB
who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,
YLT
Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures.
DBT
Who long for death, and it [cometh] not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;
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.