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The Book of Job, Chapter 27, Verse 23

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For [God] shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
King James Version
[Men] shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
American Standard Version
Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.
New English Translation
It claps its hands at him in derision and hisses him away from his place.
World English Bible
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
1
Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold [where] they fine [it].
2
Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass [is] molten [out of] the stone.
3
He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
4
The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; [even the waters] forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
5
[As for] the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
6
The stones of it [are] the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
7
[There is] a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:
8
The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
9
He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.
10
He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.