His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:
WEB
His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
YLT
Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
DBT
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer:
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.