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