Job 28:5

28:5 The earth, from which food comes,

is overturned below as though by fire; ¹ 

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 

[28:5]  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.

[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.”