Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may trample them.
WEB
She forgets that a foot may crush them, or a wild animal may trample them.
YLT
And she forgetteth that a foot may press it, And a beast of the field tread it down.
DBT
And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the beast of the field may trample them.
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.