Job 28:9
Strong's Lexicon
The miner strikes
שָׁלַ֣ח (šā·laḥ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7971: 1) to send, send away, let go, stretch out 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to send 1a2) to stretch out, extend, direct 1a3) to send away 1a4) to let loose 1b) (Niphal) to be sent 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to send off or away or out or forth, dismiss, give over, cast out 1c2) to let go, set free 1c3) to shoot forth (of branches) 1c4) to let down 1c5) to shoot 1d) (Pual) to be sent off, be put away, be divorced, be impelled 1e) (Hiphil) to send

יָד֑וֹ (yā·ḏōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3027: 1) hand 1a) hand (of man) 1b) strength, power (fig.) 1c) side (of land), part, portion (metaph.) (fig.) 1d) (various special, technical senses) 1d1) sign, monument 1d2) part, fractional part, share 1d3) time, repetition 1d4) axle-trees, axle 1d5) stays, support (for laver) 1d6) tenons (in tabernacle) 1d7) a phallus, a hand (meaning unsure) 1d8) wrists

the flint;
בַּֽ֭חַלָּמִישׁ (ba·ḥal·lā·mîš)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2496: 1) flint, rock

he overturns
הָפַ֖ךְ (hā·p̄aḵ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2015: 1) to turn, overthrow, overturn 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to overturn, overthrow 1a2) to turn, turn about, turn over, turn around 1a3) to change, transform 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to turn oneself, turn, turn back 1b2) to change oneself 1b3) to be perverse 1b4) to be turned, be turned over, be changed, be turned against 1b5) to be reversed 1b6) to be overturned, be overthrown 1b7) to be upturned 1c) (Hithpael) 1c1) to transform oneself 1c2) to turn this way and that, turn every way 1d) (Hophal) to turn on someone

mountains
הָרִֽים׃ (hā·rîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2022: 1) hill, mountain, hill country, mount

at their base.
מִשֹּׁ֣רֶשׁ (miš·šō·reš)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8328: 1) root 1a) root (literal) 1b) root (of people involving firmness or permanence) (fig) 1c) root, bottom (as lowest stratum) (fig)

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
The miner strikes the flint; he overturns mountains at their base.

Young's Literal Translation
Against the flint he sent forth his hand, He overturned from the root mountains.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The miner strikes the  flint and transforms the mountains at  their foundations.

New American Standard Bible
"He puts his hand on the flint; He overturns the mountains at the base.

King James Bible
He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
People assault the flinty rock with their hands and lay bare the roots of the mountains.

New Living Translation
People know how to tear apart flinty rocks and overturn the roots of mountains.

English Standard Version
“Man puts his hand to the flinty rock and overturns mountains by the roots.

New American Standard Bible
"He puts his hand on the flint; He overturns the mountains at the base.

King James Bible
He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The miner strikes the flint and transforms the mountains at their foundations.

International Standard Version
"Using a flint, he thrusts his hand, overturning mountains by the roots.

NET Bible
On the flinty rock man has set to work with his hand; he has overturned mountains at their bases.

American Standard Version
He putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock; He overturneth the mountains by the roots.

English Revised Version
He putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.

Young's Literal Translation
Against the flint he sent forth his hand, He overturned from the root mountains.
















Cross References
Job 9:5
Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.

Job 28:8
The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

Job 28:10
He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Job 28:7
There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:

Job 28:6
The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.

Job 28:11
He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

Job 28:12
But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
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