The Pulpit Commentary on Job 28:8

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

The lion's whelps have not trodden it; literally, the sons of the fierce—the whelps of lions, tigers, or leopards may be intended. These beasts would haunt the mountains and penetrate into natural caverns, bat would never adventure themselves in the shafts and adits of miners.

Nor the fierce lion passed by it; rather, passed thereby (see the Revised Version).

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