24:8 The happy sound 1 of the tambourines stops,
the revelry of those who celebrate comes to a halt,
the happy sound of the harp ceases.
38:11 “I thought,
‘I will no longer see the Lord 2 in the land of the living,
I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world. 3
1 tn Heb “the joy” (again later in this verse).
2 tn The Hebrew text has יָהּ יָהּ (yah yah, the abbreviated form of יְהוָה [yÿhvah] repeated), but this is probably a corruption of יְהוָה.
3 tc The Hebrew text has חָדֶל (khadel), which appears to be derived from a verbal root meaning “to cease, refrain.” But the form has probably suffered an error of transmission; the original form (attested in a few medieval Hebrew