Job 28:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Man setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out to the furthest bound The stones of thick darkness and of the shadow of death.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

He setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out all perfection: The stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Man sets an end to darkness, and he searches out the farthest bounds for the ore buried in gloom and deep darkness.

American Standard Version (1901)

Man setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

Common English Bible

Humans put an end to darkness, dig for ore to the farthest depths, into stone in utter darkness,

Catholic Public Domain Version

He has established a time for darkness, and he has settled on an end for all things, as well as for the stone that is in the gloom and shadow of death.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

He hath set a time for darkness, and the end of all things he considereth: the stone also that is in the dark and the shadow of death.

Job 28:3 Cross References

Job 12:22

He discovereth deep things out of darkness, And bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

Job 28:2

Iron is taken out of the earth, And brass is molten out of the stone.

Job 28:4

He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn; They are forgotten of the foot that passeth by; They hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.

Job 3:5

Let 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.

Proverbs 2:4

If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures;

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the peoples labour for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

Matthew 6:33

But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Luke 16:8

And his lord commended the unrighteous steward because he had done wisely: for the sons of this world are for their own generation wiser than the sons of the light.