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Saturday, October 26th, 2024
the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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King James Version

Job 28:8

The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

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

New Living Translation
No wild animal has walked upon these treasures; no lion has ever set his paw there.
English Revised Version
The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor hath the fierce lion passed thereby.
Update Bible Version
The proud beasts haven't trodden it, Nor has the fierce lion passed thereby.
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.
Webster's Bible Translation
The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
World English Bible
The proud animals have not trodden it, Nor has the fierce lion passed by there.
Amplified Bible
"The proud beasts [and their young] have not walked on it, Nor has the fierce lion passed over it.
English Standard Version
The proud beasts have not trodden it; the lion has not passed over it.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The sones of marchauntis tretiden not on it, and a lyonesse passide not therbi.
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.
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.
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.
Easy-to-Read Version
Wild animals have never been there. Lions have not traveled 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.
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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The lyons whelpes haue not walked it, nor the lyon passed thereby.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Young's Literal Translation
Nor trodden it have the sons of pride, Not passed over it hath the fierce lion.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
wherin ye proude & hye mynded walke not, & where no lyon commeth.
New American Standard Bible
"The proud animals have not trodden it, Nor has the lion passed over it.
New King James Version
The proud lions [fn] have not trodden it,Nor has the fierce lion passed over it.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The proud beasts have not trodden it, Nor has the fierce lion passed over it.
Legacy Standard Bible
The proud beasts have not trodden it,Nor has the fierce lion passed over it.

Contextual Overview

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 it were fire. 6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold. 7 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen: 8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it. 9 He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots. 10 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Proverbs 2:7 - layeth

Cross-References

Genesis 24:3
And I will make thee swear by the Lord , the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
Genesis 28:1
And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
1 Samuel 8:6
But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto 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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