Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Whether it be for correction, or for his land, Or for lovingkindness, that he cause it to come.
WEB
Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion.
YLT
Whether for a rod, or for His land, Or for kindness--He doth cause it to come.
DBT
Whether he cause it to come as a rod, or for his land, or in mercy.
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.