He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
WEB
He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.
YLT
Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,
DBT
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the wily is carried headlong:
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.