Logos Bible Study

Job 28:4

GOD’S WORD TranslationOther versions

English

Arabic

Czech

French

German

Hebrew

Hungarian

Italian

Korean

Latin

Portuguese

Russian

Simplified Chinese

Spanish

Traditional Chinese

4They open up a mineshaft far from civilization, 

where no one has set foot. 

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

Read in Logos

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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.

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.