Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden.
WEB
He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden.
YLT
Green he is before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out.
DBT
He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;
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.