VERSE STUDY • KJV

Job 28:4

The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; [even the waters] forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.

Read it in 5 translations

The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; [even the waters] forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.

Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.

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.

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.

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

1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold [where] they fine [it].

2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass [is] molten [out of] the stone.

3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

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.

5 [As for] the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.

6 The stones of it [are] the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.

7 [There is] a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen:

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HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

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