Job 30:30

30:30 My skin has turned dark on me; ¹ 

my body ²  is hot with fever. ³ 

Psalms 102:4

102:4 My heart is parched ⁴  and withered like grass,

for I am unable ⁵  to eat food. ⁶ 

[30:30]  ¹ tn The MT has “become dark from upon me,” prompting some editions to supply the verb “falls from me” (RSV, NRSV), or “peels” (NIV).

[30:30]  ² tn The word “my bones” may be taken as a metonymy of subject, the bony framework indicating the whole body.

[30:30]  ³ tn The word חֹרֶב (khorev) also means “heat.” The heat in this line is not that of the sun, but obviously a fever.

[102:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “struck, attacked.”

[102:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “I forget.”

[102:4]  ⁶ sn I am unable to eat food. During his time of mourning, the psalmist refrained from eating. In the following verse he describes metaphorically the physical effects of fasting.