Job 28:3

An end, hath one set to the darkness, and, into every extremity, is, he, making search, for the stone of darkness and death-shade;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

2Iron, out of the ore, is taken, and, stone, poureth out copper;

4He hath sunken a shaft, away from the inhabitants; Places forsaken by the foot, they hang down, away from men, sway to and fro;

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Cross References

Job 3:5Let darkness and death-shade buy it back, May there settle down upon it a cloud, Let a day’s dark eclipse cause it terror:

Job 12:22Laying open deep things, out of darkness, and bringing out to light, the death-shade:

Proverbs 2:4If thou seek her as silver, and, like hid treasure, thou search for her,

Habakkuk 2:13Lo! is it not from Yahweh of hosts—that peoples labour for fire, and, populations, for emptiness, weary themselves?

Luke 16:8And the lord praised the unrighteous steward, in that with forethought he acted:—Because, the sons of this age, have more forethought than the sons of light, respecting their own 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 →

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