World English Bible
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.”
Verse in context — Job 28
2
Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.
3
Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
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.
5
As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
6
Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.
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