Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, It withereth before any other herb.
WEB
While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.
YLT
While it is in its budding--uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth.
DBT
Whilst it is yet in its greenness [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] grass.
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.