A disputed verbal root appearing in Job 27:8, if the traditional reading is correct. The text asks rhetorically: 'What is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off, when God draws out his soul?' The verb form (יֵשֶׁל) is apocopated, complicating identification. Some derive it from a root meaning 'draw out' or 'extract' (related to שָׁלַל), fitting the Syriac and Targumic usage. Others propose reading יִשְׁאַל ('demands') or יִשָּׂא אֶל ('lifts up to'). De and others defend the drawing-out interpretation: God extracting the wicked person's soul. The textual uncertainty reflects Job's linguistic complexity, where rare roots and forms abound.