Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? Or what receiveth he of thy hand?
WEB
If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
YLT
If thou hast been righteous, What dost thou give to Him? Or what from thy hand doth He receive?
DBT
If thou be righteous, what givest thou to him? or what doth he receive of thy hand?
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.