Job 28:3 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

³ He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ He setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out all perfection: The stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ 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)

³ Man setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

Common English Bible

³ Humans put an end to darkness, dig for ore to the farthest depths, into stone in utter darkness,

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ 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.

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

The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.

Job 3:5

Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

Proverbs 2:4

if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts that the people shall labor in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?

Matthew 6:33

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

Luke 16:8

And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.