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An Appeal to God as Witness

18 “O earth, do not cover my blood,[a]
nor let there be a secret[b] place for my cry.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 16:18 sn Job knows that he will die, and that his death, signified here by blood on the ground, will cry out for vindication.
  2. Job 16:18 tn The word is simply “a place,” but in the context it surely means a hidden place, a secret place that would never be discovered (see 18:21).