Job 17:13

17:13 If ¹  I hope for the grave to be my home,

if I spread out my bed in darkness,

Job 41:30

41:30 Its underparts ²  are the sharp points of potsherds,

it leaves its mark in the mud

like a threshing sledge. ³ 

[17:13]  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).

[41:30]  ² tn Heb “under him.”

[41:30]  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.”