Text -- Job 40:13 (NET)

40:13 Hide them in the dust together, imprison them in the grave.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 40:13

¹ tn The word “dust” can mean “ground” here, or more likely, “grave.”

² tn The verb חָבַשׁ (khavash) means “to bind.” In Arabic the word means “to bind” in the sense of “to imprison,” and that fits here.

³ tn Heb “their faces.”

⁴ tn The word is “secret place,” the place where he is to hide them, i.e., the grave. The text uses the word “secret place” as a metonymy for the grave.