O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
Inasmuch as Job is persuaded he shall soon die, he desires that his innocence, which is called in question while he is alive, may be at least acknowledged when he is dead.
My blood - i:e., my undeserved suffering. He compares himself to one murdered, whose blood the earth refuses to drink up until he is avenged (Genesis 4:10-11; Ezekiel 24:1; Ezekiel 24:8; Isaiah 26:21). The Arabs say that the dew of heaven will not descend on a spot watered with innocent blood (cf. 2 Samuel 1:21).
No place - no resting-place. "May my cry never stop!" May it go abroad! May there be no halting-place to the cry of my blood demanding vindication! May it resound through the whole earth, and be borne even to the remote heaven! (cf. Job 19:25.) "Earth" in this verse in antithesis to "heaven" (Job 16:19). May my innocence be as well known to man as it is even now to God!