If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:
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Parallel translations
4 additional translationsIf there be with him an angel, An interpreter, one among a thousand, To show unto man what is right for him;
Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,
If there is by him a messenger, An interpreter--one of a thousand, To declare for man his uprightness:
If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his duty;
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.