Job 16:18

An Appeal to God as Witness

16:18 “O earth, do not cover my blood, ¹ 

nor let there be a secret ²  place for my cry.

Job 39:6

39:6 to whom I appointed the steppe for its home,

the salt wastes as its dwelling place?

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).