Verse 18
18. Cover not thou my blood He speaks of his sufferings under the figure of blood that has been wrongfully shed. “Blood,” says Grotius, “denotes every kind of immature death.” The ancients attributed to blood, unjustly shed, a cry that excited God to vengeance; an opinion which may have sprung from the case of Abel, Genesis 4:10. “When the earth covers the blood of the slain it seems to cloak injury.” Drusius. See also Isaiah 26:21; Ezekiel 24:7-8. The Arabs say the dew of heaven will not descend upon a spot watered with innocent blood; and their poets fancy that the poison of asps distils from the dead body of the slain, and continues to do so till he is avenged, that is, sprinkled with fresh blood. (See HERDER, Hebrews Poetry, 1:195.) Job will have nothing to do with a human goel; he transfers his cause to a divine being (Job 19:25) who he believes will finally avenge his blood.
No place In sense of resting place.
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