Job 27:15

27:15 Those who survive him are buried by the plague, ¹ 

and their ²  widows do not mourn for them.

Job 30:31

30:31 My harp is used for ³  mourning

and my flute for the sound of weeping.

[27:15]  ¹ tn The text says “will be buried in/by death.” A number of passages in the Bible use “death” to mean the plague that kills (see Jer 15:2; Isa 28:3; and BDB 89 s.v. בְּ 2.a). In this sense it is like the English expression for the plague, “the Black Death.”

[27:15]  ² tc The LXX has “their widows” to match the plural, and most commentators harmonize in the same way.

[30:31]  ³ tn The verb הָיָה (hayah, “to be”) followed by the preposition ל (lamed) means “to serve the purpose of” (see Gen 1:14ff., 17:7, etc.).