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Job 28:8

Wild animals have never been there. Lions have not traveled that way.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Continents;   Lion;   Readings, Select;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Lion, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Mine;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Mines;   Holman Bible Dictionary - God;   Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Lion;   Mining and Metals;   Wisdom;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mines, Mining;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Lion;   Mine;   Whelp;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Proud beasts have never walked on it;no lion has ever prowled over it.
Hebrew Names Version
The proud animals have not trodden it, Nor has the fierce lion passed by there.
King James Version
The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
English Standard Version
The proud beasts have not trodden it; the lion has not passed over it.
New Century Version
Proud animals have not walked there, and no lions cross over it.
New English Translation
Proud beasts have not set foot on it, and no lion has passed along it.
Amplified Bible
"The proud beasts [and their young] have not walked on it, Nor has the fierce lion passed over it.
New American Standard Bible
"The proud animals have not trodden it, Nor has the lion passed over it.
World English Bible
The proud animals have not trodden it, Nor has the fierce lion passed by there.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The lyons whelpes haue not walked it, nor the lyon passed thereby.
Legacy Standard Bible
The proud beasts have not trodden it,Nor has the fierce lion passed over it.
Berean Standard Bible
Proud beasts have never trodden it; no lion has ever prowled over it.
Contemporary English Version
they walk on soil unknown to the proudest lions.
Complete Jewish Bible
the proud beasts have never set foot on it, no lion has ever passed over it.
Darby Translation
The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed over it.
George Lamsa Translation
Wild beasts have not trodden it, nor has the lion passed by it.
Good News Translation
No lion or other fierce beast Ever travels those lonely roads.
Lexham English Bible
Proud wild animals have not trodden it; the lion in its prime has not prowled over it.
Literal Translation
the sons of pride have not trodden on it; the lion has not passed by it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
wherin ye proude & hye mynded walke not, & where no lyon commeth.
American Standard Version
The proud beasts have not trodden it, Nor hath the fierce lion passed thereby.
Bible in Basic English
The great beasts have not gone over it, and the cruel lion has not taken that way.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor hath the lion passed thereby.
King James Version (1611)
The lyons whelps haue not troden it, nor the fierce lyon passed by it.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Wherin the lions whelpes walke not, and where no lion commeth.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
neither have the sons of the proud trodden it, a lion has not passed upon it.
English Revised Version
The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor hath the fierce lion passed thereby.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The sones of marchauntis tretiden not on it, and a lyonesse passide not therbi.
Update Bible Version
The proud beasts haven't trodden it, Nor has the fierce lion passed thereby.
Webster's Bible Translation
The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
New King James Version
The proud lions [fn] have not trodden it,Nor has the fierce lion passed over it.
New Living Translation
No wild animal has walked upon these treasures; no lion has ever set his paw there.
New Life Bible
The proud animals have not stepped on it. The strong lion has not passed over it.
New Revised Standard
The proud wild animals have not trodden it; the lion has not passed over it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ravenous beasts have not made a track thereof, neither hath the lion marched thereon:
Douay-Rheims Bible
The children of the merchants have not trodden it, neither hath the lioness passed by it.
Revised Standard Version
The proud beasts have not trodden it; the lion has not passed over it.
Young's Literal Translation
Nor trodden it have the sons of pride, Not passed over it hath the fierce lion.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The proud beasts have not trodden it, Nor has the fierce lion passed over it.

Contextual Overview

1 "There are mines where people get silver and places where people melt gold to make it pure. 2 Iron is dug out of the ground, and copper is melted out of the rocks. 3 Miners carry lights deep into caves to search for these rocks in the deepest darkness. 4 Far from where people live, they dig deep into the ground, down where no one else has been before. There they work all alone, hanging from ropes. 5 Food grows on the ground above. But underground it is different, as if everything were melted by fire. 6 In the rocks there are sapphires and grains of pure gold. 7 Wild birds know nothing about the way to these places. No falcon has ever seen it. 8 Wild animals have never been there. Lions have not traveled that way. 9 Miners dig the hardest rocks. They dig away at the mountains and make them bare. 10 They cut tunnels through the rocks and see all the treasures they hold.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Proverbs 2:7 - layeth

Cross-References

Genesis 24:3
Now I want you to make a promise to me. Promise to me before the Lord , the God of heaven and earth, that you will not allow my son to marry a girl from Canaan. We live among these people, but don't let him marry a Canaanite girl.
Genesis 28:1
Isaac called Jacob and blessed him. Then Isaac gave him a command and said, "You must not marry a Canaanite woman.
1 Samuel 8:6
So the elders asked for a king to lead them. Samuel thought this was a bad idea, so he prayed to the Lord .

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it. Or "upon it" e; such creatures that are exceeding fierce and cruel, hungry and voracious, eager after their prey, range here and there in pursuit of it, search every hole and corner, and rove in dens and caves of the earth; yet these never traversed such ways and paths the miners make to get out the wealth and riches of the earth. Wicked men are sometimes compared to lions, for their cruelty and oppression exercised on the saints, breathing out threatenings and slaughter against them, Psalms 57:4; and particularly tyrannical princes and persecutors, as the kings of Assyria and Babylon, and Nero the Roman emperor, Jeremiah 1:17; these never trod the way of holiness, nor walked in the path of truth, nor knew the wisdom of God in a mystery, nor the Lord of life and glory, and the way of life and salvation by him; which is a way the unclean walk not in, or persons of such a temper and disposition; see Isaiah 35:8. The former clause may be rendered, as it is by some, "the children of pride" f, and as it is in Job 41:34, which is the only place besides this where it is used; and so the Septuagint version, "the children of proud men": and may be accommodated to self-righteous persons, who are proud boasters of themselves and of their works, and go about to establish their own righteousness, and despise and will not submit unto the righteousness of Christ; these tread not in nor walk upon the good old way, and the only way of life, righteousness, and salvation, by Christ.

e עליו "super eam", Schultens. f בני שחץ "filii superbiae", Montanus, Beza, Bolducius, Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The lion’s whelps - The lion that ventures into the most dangerous places in pursuit of prey, has not dared to go where man has gone in pursuit of precious stones and gold. On the words used here to designate the lion, see Bochart Hieroz P. 1. Lib. iii. c. 1.


 
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