Job 28:4

World English Bible (WEB)

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.

In context

2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.

3 Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

4 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.

5 As for the earth, out of it comes bread. Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

6 Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.

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.
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.
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.
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.