Job 28:9
Good News Translation
Miners dig the hardest rocks, Dig mountains away at their base.

New Revised Standard Version
“They put their hand to the flinty rock, and overturn mountains by the roots.

Contemporary English Version
With their own hands they remove sharp rocks and uproot mountains.

New American Bible
He sets his hand to the flinty rock, and overturns the mountains at their root.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He hath stretched forth his hand to the flint, he hath overturned mountains from the roots.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He hath stretched forth his hand to the flint, he hath overturned mountains from the roots.

rock.

Nahum 1:4-6 He rebuketh the sea and drieth it up: and bringeth all the rivers to be a desert. Basan languisheth and Carmel: and the flower of Libanus fadeth away. . . .

Context
Where Can Wisdom Be Found?
8The children of the merchants have not trodden it, neither hath the lioness passed by it. 9He hath stretched forth his hand to the flint, he hath overturned mountains from the roots.10In the rocks he hath cut out rivers, and his eye hath seen every precious thing.…
Cross References
Job 9:5
Who hath removed mountains, and they whom he overthrew in his wrath, knew it not.

Job 28:8
The children of the merchants have not trodden it, neither hath the lioness passed by it.

Job 28:10
In the rocks he hath cut out rivers, and his eye hath seen every precious thing.

Job 28:8
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