Job 28:4

What does Job 28:4 mean?

A plain-English look at Job 28:4 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter 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.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

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

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

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.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

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

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.

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