Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vanity; He multiplieth words without knowledge.
WEB
So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
YLT
And Job with vanity doth open his mouth, Without knowledge words he multiplieth.
DBT
For Job hath opened his mouth in vanity, and made words abundant without knowledge.
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.