Job 28:4
Job 28:4 — The New International Version (NIV)
4 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)
4 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)
4 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)
4 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)
4 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)
4 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)
4 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)
4 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)
4 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)
4 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)
4 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)
4 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)
4 “He sinks a shaft far from habitation,
Forgotten by the foot;
They hang and swing to and fro far from men.