If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he hearkened unto my voice.
WEB
If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice.
YLT
Though I had called and He answereth me, I do not believe that He giveth ear to my voice.
DBT
If I had called, and he had answered me, I would not believe that he hearkened to my voice, —
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.