Text -- Job 41:22 (NET)

41:22 Strength lodges in its neck, and despair runs before it.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 41:22

¹ tn This word, דְּאָבָה (dÿ’avah) is a hapax legomenon. But the verbal root means “to languish; to pine.” A related noun talks of dejection and despair in Deut 28:65. So here “despair” as a translation is preferable to “terror.”