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 sources of the vast watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened,
Job 28:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised He cuts a shaft far from human habitation, in places unknown to those who walk above ground. Suspended far away from people, the miners swing back and forth. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
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 sources of the vast watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened,
A miner puts an end to the darkness; he probes the deepest recesses for ore in the gloomy darkness.
Food may come from the earth, but below the surface the earth is transformed as by fire.