Job 28:3
Miners take lamps into the darkness underground and search for ore as far as they can go in the shadows and the gloom.
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2Iron is extracted from the earth and copper is smelted from its ore.
Cross References
Job 3:5Take it back, darkness and death-shadow. A black cloud should overshadow it. It should be as terrifying as the darkness of an eclipse during the day.
Job 12:22He reveals what is hidden in darkness, and brings into the light the shadow of death.
Proverbs 2:4if you look for it as if it were silver and search for it as if it were hidden treasure;
Habakkuk 2:13Hasn't the Lord Almighty decided that all the hard work of such nations is going to be burned up—that they wear themselves out for nothing?
Luke 16:8The rich man commended his dishonest manager for his cunning idea. The children of this world are more cunning towards one another than are the children of 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 →