Job 28:3

He has set a bound to darkness, and he searches out every limit: a stone is darkness, and the shadow of death.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

In Context

2For iron comes out of the earth, and brass is hewn out like stone.

4There is a cutting off of the torrent by reason of dust: so they that forget the right way are weakened; they are removed from among men.

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Cross References

Job 3:5But let darkness and the shadow of death seize it; let blackness come upon it;

Job 12:22Revealing deep things out of darkness: and he has brought into light the shadow of death.

Proverbs 2:4and if thou shalt seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures;

Habakkuk 2:13Are not these things of the Lord Almighty? surely many people have been exhausted in the fire, and many nations have fainted.

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 →

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