Ayub 14:11

14:11 As ¹  water disappears from the sea, ² 

or a river drains away and dries up,

Ayub 38:30

38:30 when the waters become hard ³  like stone,

when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?

[14:11]  ¹ tn The comparative clause may be signaled simply by the context, especially when facts of a moral nature are compared with the physical world (see GKC 499 §161.a).

[14:11]  ² tn The Hebrew word יָם (yam) can mean “sea” or “lake.”

[38:30]  ³ tn Several suggest that the verb is not from חָבָא (khava’, “to hide”) but from a homonym, “to congeal.” This may be too difficult to support, however.