Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Thy wickednessmay hurta man as thou art; And thy righteousness may profit a son of man.
WEB
Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
YLT
For a man like thyself is thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy righteousness.
DBT
Thy wickedness [may affect] a man as thou [art], and thy righteousness a son of man.
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.