Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsUpon my right hand rise the rabble; They thrust aside my feet, And they cast up against me their ways of destruction.
The rabble arises at my right; they lay snares for my feet and build siege ramps against me.
On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity.
At [my] right hand rise the young brood; they push away my feet, and raise up against me their pernicious ways;
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.