Job 28:4

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.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King 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.

In Context

3He hath set a time for darkness, and the end of all things he considereth, the stone also that is in the dark and the shadow of death.

5The land, out of which bread grew in its place, hath been overturned with fire.

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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 →

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