Ayub 41:22

41:22 Strength lodges in its neck,

and despair ¹  runs before it.

Ayub 41:24

41:24 Its heart ²  is hard as rock,

hard as a lower millstone.

[41:22]  ¹ tn This word, דְּאָבָה (dÿ’avah) is a hapax legomenon. But the verbal root means “to languish; to pine.” A related noun talks of dejection and despair in Deut 28:65. So here “despair” as a translation is preferable to “terror.”

[41:24]  ² tn The description of his heart being “hard” means that he is cruel and fearless. The word for “hard” is the word encountered before for molten or cast metal.