Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
But it was thou, a man mine equal, My companion, and my familiar friend.
WEB
But it is you, a man like myself, my companion and close friend.
YLT
But thou, a man--as mine equal, My familiar friend, and mine acquaintance.
DBT
But it was thou, a man mine equal, mine intimate, my familiar friend. ...
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentPsalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.
- Author
- David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
- Date
- Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.