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. "
— Job 28:4, American Standard 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.”
“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.”
“Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.”
“The flood divideth from the people that are on their journey, those whom the food of the needy man hath forgotten, and who cannot be come at.”
“He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord.”
“The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.”
Surely there is a mine for silver, And a place for gold which they refine.
Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is molten out of the stone.
Man setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
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.
As for the earth, out of it cometh bread; And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, And it hath dust of gold.
That path no bird of prey knoweth, Neither hath the falcon’s eye seen it: