Job 41:22

41:22 Strength lodges in its neck,

and despair ¹  runs before it.

Job 21:33

21:33 The clods of the torrent valley ²  are sweet to him;

behind him everybody follows in procession,

and before him goes a countless throng.

[41:22]  ¹ tn This word, דְּאָבָה (dÿ’avah) is a hapax legomenon. But the verbal root means “to languish; to pine.” A related noun talks of dejection and despair in Deut 28:65. So here “despair” as a translation is preferable to “terror.”

[21:33]  ² tn The clods are those that are used to make a mound over the body. And, for a burial in the valley, see Deut 34:6. The verse here sees him as participating in his funeral and enjoying it. Nothing seems to go wrong with the wicked.