28:5 The earth, from which food comes,
is overturned below as though by fire; 1
41:30 Its underparts 2 are the sharp points of potsherds,
it leaves its mark in the mud
like a threshing sledge. 3
1 sn The verse has been properly understood, on the whole, as comparing the earth above and all its produce with the upheaval down below.
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.”