(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translations(Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And her have I guided from my mother’s womb);
though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—
(But from my youth He grew up with me as with a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.)
(For from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have guided the [widow] from my mother's womb;)
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.