NET Bible
"Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways."
— Job 28:4, NET Bible
“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 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. ”
“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.”
“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.”
III. Job’s Search for Wisdom(28:1-28)No Known Road to Wisdom“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is refined.
Iron is taken from the ground, and rock is poured out as copper.
Man puts an end to the darkness; he searches the farthest recesses for the ore in the deepest darkness.
Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.
The earth, from which food comes, is overturned below as though by fire;
a place whose stones are sapphires and which contains dust of gold;
a hidden path no bird of prey knows– no falcon’s eye has spotted it.