Job 28:4

The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant -It would be difficult to tell what idea our translators affixed to this sentence, though it seems to be a literal version of the Hebrew. There has been a great variety of rendering given to the passage. Noyes translates it: “From the place where they dwell they open a shaft, Unsupported by the feet, They are suspended, they swing away from men.” “A flood goeth out from the realm of oblivion, They draw it up from the foot of the mountain, They remove it away from men.” According to this, the meaning, Herder says, would be, that “the dwelling of the forgotten would be the kingdom of the dead, and at greater depth than the deepest mines have reached.