Job 30:6

30:6 so that they had to live ¹ 

in the dry stream beds, ² 

in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.

Job 38:38

38:38 when the dust hardens ³  into a mass,

and the clumps of earth stick together?

[30:6]  ¹ tn This use of the infinitive construct expresses that they were compelled to do something (see GKC 348-49 §114.h, k).

[30:6]  ² tn The adjectives followed by a partitive genitive take on the emphasis of a superlative: “in the most horrible of valleys” (see GKC 431 §133.h).

[38:38]  ³ tn The word means “to flow” or “to cast” (as in casting metals). So the noun developed the sense of “hard,” as in cast metal.