Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Who gave him a charge over the earth? Or who hath disposed the whole world?
WEB
Who gave Him charge over the earth? Who appointed Him over the whole world?
YLT
Who hath inspected for Himself the earth? And who hath placed all the habitable world?
DBT
Who hath entrusted to him the earth? and who hath disposed the whole world?
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.