Text -- Job 16:18 (NET)

An Appeal to God as Witness

16:18 “O earth, do not cover my blood, nor let there be a secret place for my cry.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 16:18

¹ sn Job knows that he will die, and that his death, signified here by blood on the ground, will cry out for vindication.

² tn The word is simply “a place,” but in the context it surely means a hidden place, a secret place that would never be discovered (see 18:21).