Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.
WEB
I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.
YLT
For before my food, my sighing cometh, And poured out as waters are my roarings.
DBT
For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.
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.