Job 28:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ They open shafts in a valley away from human habitation; they are forgotten by travelers; they sway suspended, remote from people.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; Even the waters forgotten of the foot: They are dried up, they are gone away from men.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Men break open shafts away from where people sojourn, in places forgotten by [human] foot; and [descend into them], hanging afar from men, they swing or flit to and fro.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ 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.

Common English Bible

⁴ open a shaft away from any inhabitant, places forgotten by those on foot, apart from any human they hang and sway.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ The burning separates a pilgrim people from those who have been forgotten by the feet of the destitute man and from the unapproachable.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ 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.

Job 28:4 Cross References

Genesis 7:11

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.

Job 28:3

Miners put an end to darkness and search out to the farthest bound the ore in gloom and deep darkness.

Job 28:5

As for the earth, out of it comes bread, but underneath it is turned up as by fire.