Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
WEB
then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.
YLT
Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished.
DBT
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and tares instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
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.