Job 28:3
Man setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out to the furthest bound the stones of thick darkness and of the shadow of death.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
2Iron is taken out of the dust, and brass 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 all that maketh black the day terrify it.
Job 12:22He uncovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
Proverbs 2:4If thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;
Habakkuk 2:13Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the peoples labour for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
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 →