Job 27:15

15. Buried in death Or, by death. They who escape war and famine shall fall by some fell pestilence that precludes even a burial. Death himself shall administer the last sad rites no funeral cortege, save wild beasts from the desert no dirge; even their “widows shall not weep,” “corruption alone shall be their tomb.” A startling personification. Comp. Jeremiah 16:4. The pestilence, in the Middle Ages, was called black death. The reader will recall painful allusions to the death of Job’s children which stained the speeches of the friends.

His widows shall not weep Comp. Jeremiah 22:18. The plural form “widows” points to polygamy as a common practice of Job’s times, and consequently to a remote age for the writing of this book.