Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
The arrow cannot make him flee: Sling-stones are turned with him into stubble.
WEB
No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.
YLT
The son of the bow doth not cause him to flee, Turned by him into stubble are stones of the sling.
DBT
The arrow will not make him flee; slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
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.