17:13 If 1 I hope for the grave to be my home,
if I spread out my bed in darkness,
41:30 Its underparts 2 are the sharp points of potsherds,
it leaves its mark in the mud
like a threshing sledge. 3
1 tn The clause begins with אִם (’im) which here has more of the sense of “since.” E. Dhorme (Job, 253) takes a rather rare use of the word to get “Can I hope again” (see also GKC 475 §150.f for the caveat).
2 tn Heb “under him.”
3 tn Here only the word “sharp” is present, but in passages like Isa 41:15 it is joined with “threshing sledge.” Here and in Amos 1:3 and Isa 28:27 the word stands alone, but represents the “sledge.”