Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
So are the paths of all that forget God; And the hope of the godless man shall perish:
WEB
Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.
YLT
So are the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,
DBT
So are the paths of all that forgetGod; and the profane man's hope shall perish,
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.