Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
They are driven forth from the midst of men; They cry after them as after a thief;
WEB
They were banished from among men, shouted down like thieves,
YLT
From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief),
DBT
They are driven forth from among [men] — they cry after them as after a thief —
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.