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Job 28:4

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4He 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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NIVNew International Version (2011)

Far from human dwellings they cut a shaft,

in places untouched by human feet;

far from other people they dangle and sway.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

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.

NLTNew Living Translation

They sink a mine shaft into the earth

far from where anyone lives.

They descend on ropes, swinging back and forth.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

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.

KJV 1900King James Version

The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant;

Even the waters forgotten of the foot:

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