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.


In Context

1 Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.

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

3 Man setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out to the furthest bound the stones of thick darkness and of the shadow of death.

4 He 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.

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

6 The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, and it hath dust of 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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

28:4The 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.

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 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.