Job 28:3
He has set an end to darkness, || And he is searching to all perfection, || A stone of darkness and death-shade.
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
2Iron is taken from the dust, || And bronze [from] the firm stone.
Cross References
Job 3:5Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, || Let a cloud dwell on it, || Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.
Job 12:22Removing deep things out of darkness, || And He brings out to light death-shade.
Proverbs 2:4If you seek her as silver, || And search for her as hid treasures,
Habakkuk 2:13Behold, is it not from YHWH of Hosts || And peoples are fatigued for fire, || And nations for vanity are weary?
Luke 16:8And the lord commended the unrighteous steward that he did prudently, because the sons of this age are more prudent than the sons of the light in respect to their generation.
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 →