Job 28:4
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28:4Far from where people live8 he sinks a shaft,
in places travelers have long forgotten,9
far from other people he dangles and sways.10
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- 8 The first part of this verse, “He cuts a shaft far from the place where people live,” has received a lot of attention. The word for “live” is גָּר (gar). Some of the proposals are: “limestone,” on the basis of the ; “far from the light,” reading נֵר (ner); “by a foreign people,” taking the word to means “foreign people”; “a foreign people opening shafts”; or taking gar as “crater” based on Arabic. Driver puts this and the next together: “a strange people who have been forgotten cut shafts” (see 3 [1935]: 162). L. Waterman had “the people of the lamp” (“Note on Job 28:4,” 71 [1952]: 167ff). And there are others. Since there is really no compelling argument in favor of one of these alternative interpretations, the should be preserved until shown to be wrong.
- 9 Heb “forgotten by the foot.” This means that there are people walking above on the ground, and the places below, these mines, are not noticed by the pedestrians above.
- 10 This is a description of the mining procedures. Dangling suspended from a rope would be a necessary part of the job of going up and down the shafts.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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NLTNew Living Translation
They sink a mine shaft into the earth
far from where anyone lives.
They descend on ropes, swinging back and forth.
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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.
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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.
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