Job 16:18

“O earth, do not cover my blood, ¹  nor let there be a secret ²  place for my cry.

Ge 4:11; Ne 4:5; Job 27:9; Ps 66:18,19; Isa 1:15; Isa 26:21; Isa 58:9,10; Jer 22:29; Eze 24:7; Jas 4:3,4

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).