Job 28:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.”
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“Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“A stream hath broken out from a sojourner, Those forgotten of the foot, They were low, from man they wandered.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 28:4 — 1 related verse from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
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