Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
KJV
Parallel translations
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4 additional translationsASV
Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?
WEB
Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?
YLT
For reproof--do you reckon words? And for wind--sayings of the desperate.
DBT
Do ye imagine to reprove words? The speeches of one that is desperate are indeed for the wind.
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.