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Job 28:4

He opens shafts in a valley away from where anyone lives;

they are forgotten by travelers;

they hang in the air, far away from mankind; they swing to and fro.

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Job 28:4 — The New International Version (NIV)

Far from human dwellings they cut a shaft,

in places untouched by human feet;

far from other people they dangle and sway.

Job 28:4 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant;

Even the waters forgotten of the foot:

They are dried up, they are gone away from men.

Job 28:4 — New Living Translation (NLT)

They sink a mine shaft into the earth

far from where anyone lives.

They descend on ropes, swinging back and forth.

Job 28:4 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

He breaks open a shaft away from people;

In places forgotten by feet

They hang far away from men;

They swing to and fro.

Job 28:4 — New Century Version (NCV)

Miners dig a tunnel far from where people live,

where no one has ever walked;

they work far from people, swinging and swaying from ropes.

Job 28:4 — American Standard Version (ASV)

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.

Job 28:4 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

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

Job 28:4 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

They open up a mineshaft far from civilization, 

where no one has set foot. 

⸤In this shaft⸥ men dangle and swing back and forth. 

Job 28:4 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

He cuts a shaft far from human habitation,

in places unknown to those who walk above ground.

Suspended far away from people,

the miners swing back and forth.

Job 28:4 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

They open shafts in a valley away from human habitation;

they are forgotten by travelers,

they sway suspended, remote from people.

Job 28:4 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

He breaks open a mine shaft away from where people dwell;

those who are forgotten by travelers,

they dangle, they sway far away from human beings.

Job 28:4 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

Far from where people live he cuts a tunnel.

He does it in places where others don’t go.

Far away from people he swings back and forth on ropes.

Job 28:4 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

“He sinks a shaft far from habitation,

Forgotten by the foot;

They hang and swing to and fro far from men.


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