KJVThe flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
A stream hath broken out from a sojourner, Those forgotten of the foot, They were low, from man they wandered.
He openeth a shaft far from the inhabitants [of the earth]: forgotten of the foot, they hang suspended; away below men they hover.
He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn; They are forgotten of the foot; They hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.
Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.
Job — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
J O B CHAP. XXVIII. The strain of this chapter is very unlike the rest of this book. Job forgets his sores, and all his sorrows, and talks like a philosopher or a virtuoso. Here is a great deal both of natural and moral philosophy in this discourse; but the…