Bible verse
Proud beasts have never trodden it; no lion has ever prowled over it.
Job 28:8 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 28.
4 Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.
5 Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.
6 Its rocks are the source of sapphires, containing flecks of gold.
7 No bird of prey knows that path; no falcon’s eye has seen it.
8 Proud beasts have never trodden it; no lion has ever prowled over it.
9 The miner strikes the flint; he overturns mountains at their base.
10 He hews out channels in the rocks, and his eyes spot every treasure.
11 He stops up the sources of the streams to bring what is hidden to light.
12 But where can wisdom be found, and where does understanding dwell?
KJV
The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
ASV
The proud beasts have not trodden it, Nor hath the fierce lion passed thereby.
ERV
The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor hath the fierce lion passed thereby.
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