16:18 “O earth, do not cover my blood, 1
nor let there be a secret 2 place for my cry.
1 sn Job knows that he will die, and that his death, signified here by blood on the ground, will cry out for vindication.
2 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).