Job 16:18

God's destructive enmity will bring Job to death, though there is no wrong in his hands and his prayer is pure (Job 16:17). This feeling makes him appeal to the earth not to cover his innocent blood. He shall die, but it is an unjust death, and his blood shall lie on the bosom of the earth open, appealing to heaven for vindication, and uttering an unceasing cry for justice.

let my cry have no place i. e. no resting place, where it should cease and be dumb and penetrate no further. His "cry" is his cry for reparation, as in Genesis 4:10 "The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground." His "blood" is, of course, a figure; it does not imply actual bloodshed, but merely a wrongful death; but it cannot mean anything short of death, because the figure is taken from a violent death. The word is used in a similar way, Psalms 30:9, "What profit is there in my blood, in my going down to the pit"? where death at God's hand from sickness seems referred to. On the idea that uncovered blood is blood calling for reparation see the remarkable passage Ezekiel 24:7-8; cf. Isaiah 26:21.