Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Who hath cleft a channel for the waterflood, Or the way for the lightning of the thunder;
WEB
Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,
YLT
Who hath divided for the flood a conduit? And a way for the lightning of the voices?
DBT
Who hath divided a channel for the rain-flood, and a way for the thunder's flash;
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.