4The 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 Context

1 Silver hath beginnings of its veins, and gold hath a place wherein it is melted.

2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone melted with heat is turned into brass.

3 He hath set a time for darkness, and the end of all things he considereth, the stone also that is in the dark and the shadow of death.

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.

5 The land, out of which bread grew in its place, hath been overturned with fire.

6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and the clods of it are gold.

Job 28:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

28:4The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; [even the waters] forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

28:4Far from where people dwell he cuts a shaft, in places forgotten by the foot of man; far from men he dangles and sways.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

28:4He 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:4He openeth a shaft far from the inhabitants of the earth: forgotten of the foot, they hang suspended; away below men they hover.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

28:4He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn; they are forgotten of the foot that passeth by; they hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:4The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant: even the waters forgotten by the foot: they are dried up, they have gone away from men.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:4He 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

28:4A stream hath broken out from a sojourner, Those forgotten of the foot, They were low, from man they wandered.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

28:4The flood breaks out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.