Job 28:4
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.
In context
2 Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.
3 Man puts an end to the darkness; he probes the farthest recesses for ore in deepest darkness.
4 Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.
5 Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.
6 Its rocks are the source of sapphires, containing flecks of gold.
Job 28:4 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.
- KJV King James Version
- The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
- WEB World English Bible
- He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.
- ASV American Standard Version
- He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn; They are forgotten of the foot; They hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- A stream hath broken out from a sojourner, Those forgotten of the foot, They were low, from man they wandered.
- DBY Darby Translation
- He openeth a shaft far from the inhabitants [of the earth]: forgotten of the foot, they hang suspended; away below men they hover.
- WBS Webster Bible
- The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant: even the waters forgotten by the foot: they are dried up, they have gone away from men.