certainty.14 Perhaps we can go a little further. Parallels between this chapter and chap. 38 lead us to 38:2de.15 Where (will be) the dwelling places (maḫāder) of the sinners, and where (will be) the resting place (meʿerāf) of those who have denied the Lord of Spirits? The answer to these rhetorical questions is: “it does not exist; they will find no rest” (see comm. on 38:1–2 above, pp. 96–97). This suggests a similar idea here, lost in a textual corruption but reflected in the negative formulation