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Where Can Wisdom Be Found?

Job 28:8

In 11 translations

BSB
Proud beasts have never trodden it; no lion has ever prowled over it.
KJV
The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
WEB
The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.
ASV
The proud beasts have not trodden it, Nor hath the fierce lion passed thereby.
LSV
Nor have the sons of pride trodden it, || The fierce lion has not passed over it.
YLT
Nor trodden it have the sons of pride, Not passed over it hath the fierce lion.
DBY
The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed over it.
DRC
The children of the merchants have not trodden it, neither hath the lioness passed by it.
GNV
The lyons whelpes haue not walked it, nor the lyon passed thereby.
JPS
The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor hath the lion passed thereby.
LXXE
neither have the sons of the proud trodden it, a lion has not passed upon it.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
לֹֽא־הִדְרִיכֻ֥הוּ בְנֵי־שָׁ֑חַץ לֹֽא־עָדָ֖ה עָלָ֣יו שָֽׁחַל׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ οὐκ ἐπάτησαν αὐτὸν υἱοὶ ἀλαζόνων, οὐ παρῆλθεν ἐπʼ αὐτῆς λέων.

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