If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
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4 additional translationsASV
If they hearken and serve him, They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.
WEB
If they obey and serve Him, then they end their days in prosperity and their years in happiness.
YLT
If they do hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.
DBT
If they hearken and serve [him], they shall accomplish their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
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.