Job 28:8

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…

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…

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…

Neither have the proud wild beasts, which fearlessly penetrate into the darkest places, ever trodden that path.

the lion's whelps Rather, the proud beasts, lit. sons of pride, ch. Job 41:34.

passed by…