Job 28:8
The great beasts have not gone over it, and the cruel lion has not taken that way.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
In Context
7No bird has knowledge of it, and the hawk's eye has never seen it.
9Man puts out his hand on the hard rock, overturning mountains by the roots.
Cross References
Proverbs 2:7He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil;
Matthew Henry on Job 28:2-12
Extent of Human Discoveries. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it. 2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone. 3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death. 4 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men. 5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as… Read the whole commentary →