Job 28:4

Job 28:4 in 10 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

4Far from human dwellings they cut a shaft,

in places untouched by human feet;

far from other people they dangle and sway.

4“He sinks a shaft away from inhabited areas,

Forgotten by the foot;

They hang and swing, away from people.

4“He breaks open (mine) shafts far away from where people live,

[In places] forgotten by the [human] foot;

They dangle [in the mines] and hang away from men.

4Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft

in places forgotten by the foot of man.

Far from men he dangles and sways.

4He 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.

4The flood breaketh out against the inhabitant, and the waters forgotten of the foote, being higher then man, are gone away.

4He 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.

4Far from where people live they cut a tunnel.

They do it in places where other people don’t go.

Far away from people they swing back and forth on ropes.

4They dig deep holes in the ground

far away from places where people live.

Other people do not know about those places.

People hang on ropes as they go deep down into the earth.

4A stream has broken out from a sojourner, || Those forgotten of the foot, || They were low, they wandered from man.