Job 28:3
[Man] sets an end to darkness, and searches out to the furthest bound the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is molten out of the stone.
Cross References
Job 3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell upon it. Let blackness come upon it.
Job 12:22He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
Proverbs 2:4if thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures,
Habakkuk 2:13Behold, is it not of LORD of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
Luke 16:8And his lord commended the unrighteous manager because he did shrewdly. Because the sons of this age are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of the light.
Matthew Henry on Job 28:2-12
Extent of Human Discoveries. ( b. c. 1520.) 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… Read the whole commentary →