Job 7:8

7:8 The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; ¹ 

your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone. ² 

Job 17:13

17:13 If ³  I hope for the grave to be my home,

if I spread out my bed in darkness,

Job 31:16

31:16 If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, ⁴ 

or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

[7:8]  ¹ sn The meaning of the verse is that God will relent, but it will be too late. God now sees him with a hostile eye; when he looks for him, or looks upon him in friendliness, it will be too late.

[7:8]  ² tn This verse is omitted in the LXX and so by several commentators. But the verb שׁוּר (shur, “turn, return”) is so characteristic of Job (10 times) that the verse seems appropriate here.

[17:13]  ³ 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).

[31:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “kept the poor from [their] desire.”