Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsWEB
Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,
ASV
Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
YLT
Where is this--the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where is this--its place?
DBT
Where is the way to where light dwelleth? and the darkness, where is its place,
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.