Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Hast thou comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if thou knowest it all.
WEB
Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.
YLT
Thou hast understanding, Even unto the broad places of earth! Declare--if thou hast known it all.
DBT
Hath thine understanding compassed the breadths of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all.
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.