xxx. Since, however, it bears such a strong impress of originality,

one can only suppose that the author placed it here by an afterthought, and omitted to construct a connecting link with the preceding chapter.

Footnote 40:

These verses have been misplaced in the Massoretic text (as Isa. xxxviii. 21, 22). They clearly ought to stand at the end of the chapter. So Kennicott, Eichhorn, Merx, Delitzsch.

Footnote 41:

But for this tendency of the poem one might follow Delitzsch (art. ‘Hiob’ in _Herzog-Plitt_, vi. 133) and regard chap. xxviii. as inserted by the author of _Job_ from his ‘portfolio.’