Job 28:8

THE MESSAGE

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.

Easy-to-Read Version
Wild animals have never been there. Lions have not traveled that way.

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 "We all know how silver seams the rocks, we've seen the stuff from which gold is refined, We're aware of how iron is dug out of the ground and copper is smelted from rock. Miners penetrate the earth's darkness, searching the roots of the mountains for ore, digging away in the suffocating darkness. Far from civilization, far from the traffic, they cut a shaft, and are lowered into it by ropes. Earth's surface is a field for grain, but its depths are a forge Firing sapphires from stones and chiseling gold from rocks. Vultures are blind to its riches, hawks never lay eyes on it. Wild animals are oblivious to it, lions don't know it's there. Miners hammer away at the rock, they uproot the mountains. They tunnel through the rock and find all kinds of beautiful gems. They discover the origins of rivers, and bring earth's secrets to light. ¹²"But where, oh where, will they find Wisdom? Where does Insight hide? Mortals don't have a clue, haven't the slightest idea where to look. Earth's depths say, ‘It's not here'; ocean deeps echo, ‘Never heard of it.' It can't be bought with the finest gold; no amount of silver can get it. Even famous Ophir gold can't buy it, not even diamonds and sapphires. Neither gold nor emeralds are comparable; extravagant jewelry can't touch it. Pearl necklaces and ruby bracelets—why bother? None of this is even a down payment on Wisdom! Pile gold and African diamonds as high as you will, they can't hold a candle to Wisdom.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Proverbs 2:7 - layeth

Cross-References

Genesis 28:1
So Isaac called in Jacob and blessed him. Then he ordered him, "Don't take a Caananite wife. Leave at once. Go to Paddan Aram to the family of your mother's father, Bethuel. Get a wife for yourself from the daughters of your uncle Laban.

1 Samuel 8:6
When Samuel heard their demand—"Give us a king to rule us!"—he was crushed. How awful! Samuel prayed to God .

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.