Job 28:3
A man sets an end to darkness 1 and searches out, to the farthest limit, 1 the stones in obscurity and thick darkness. 1
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2Iron is taken out of the earth; 1 copper is smelted out of the stone. 1
Cross References
Job 3:5May darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. 1 May a cloud live over it; 1 may everything that makes the day black truly terrify it. 1
Job 12:22He reveals the deep things of darkness 1 and brings deep shadows into the light. 1
Proverbs 2:4if you seek it like you would seek silver 1 and search for understanding as you would seek hidden treasures, 1
Habakkuk 2:13Is it not from Yahweh of hosts 2 that peoples labor for fire and all the other nations weary themselves for nothing? 2
Luke 16:8The master then commended the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the children of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own people 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 →