Job 28:9
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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
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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.

Lexicon
The miner strikes
שָׁלַ֣ח (šā·laḥ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7971: To send away, for, out

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

he overturns
הָפַ֖ךְ (hā·p̄aḵ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2015: To turn about, over, to change, overturn, return, pervert

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

at their base.
מִשֹּׁ֣רֶשׁ (miš·šō·reš)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8328: A root


Additional Translations
The miner strikes the flint; he overturns mountains at their base.He puts forth his hand on the rock; he overturns the mountains by the roots.

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

He has stretched forth his hand on the sharp rock, and turned up mountains by the roots:

[Man] putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock, he overturneth the mountains by the root.

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

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

He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.

Against the flint he sent forth his hand, He overturned from the root mountains.
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