Ayub 10:21

10:21 before I depart, never to return, ¹ 

to the land of darkness

and the deepest shadow, ² 

Ayub 28:5

28:5 The earth, from which food comes,

is overturned below as though by fire; ³ 

[10:21]  ¹ sn The verbs are simple, “I go” and “I return”; but Job clearly means before he dies. A translation of “depart” comes closer to communicating this. The second verb may be given a potential imperfect translation to capture the point. The NIV offered more of an interpretive paraphrase: “before I go to the place of no return.”

[10:21]  ² tn See Job 3:5.

[28:5]  ³ sn The verse has been properly understood, on the whole, as comparing the earth above and all its produce with the upheaval down below.