Job 28:4

In 11 translations

BSB

Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.

KJV

The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.

WEB

He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.

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.

LSV

A stream has broken out from a sojourner, || Those forgotten of the foot, || They were low, they wandered from man.

YLT

A stream hath broken out from a sojourner, Those forgotten of the foot, They were low, from man they wandered.

DBY

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

DRC

The flood divideth from the people that are on their journey, those whom the food of the needy man hath forgotten, and who cannot be come at.

GNV

The flood breaketh out against the inhabitant, and the waters forgotten of the foote, being higher then man, are gone away.

JPS

He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn; they are forgotten of the foot that passeth by; they hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.

LXXE

There is a cutting off of the torrent by reason of dust: so they that forget the right way are weakened; they are removed from among men.

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Original-language editions

WLC

פָּ֤רַץ נַ֨חַל ׀ מֵֽעִם־גָּ֗ר הַֽנִּשְׁכָּחִ֥ים מִנִּי־רָ֑גֶל דַּ֖לּוּ מֵאֱנ֣וֹשׁ נָֽעוּ׃

LXX-Br

Διακοπὴ χειμάῤῥου ἀπὸ κονίας, οἱ δὲ ἐπιλανθανόμενοι ὁδὸν δικαίαν ἠσθένησαν, ἐκ βροτῶν ἐσαλεύθησαν.

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