Job 28:4

Job chapter 28 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with scriptural context

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

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.

Context

v.3Man setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

v.4This passage

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