The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
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Gill's Exposition
The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant,.... Or, "so that there is no inhabitant" (z); of the mine, as the miner may be said to be, who lives there continually; and, when a flood of water arises,…
Barnes' Notes
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…
Here Job shows, 1. What a great way the wit of man may go in diving into the depths of nature and seizing the riches of it, what a great deal of knowledge and wealth men may, by their ingenious and…
Cambridge Bible
This verse reads as a whole,
They break a shaft away from man's abode;
They are forgotten of the foot;
Far away from men they hang, and swing.
The first clause, lit. away from the dwelleror…