Job 28:4

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.

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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

3Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

5As for the earth, out of it comes bread. Underneath it is turned up as it were by 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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