Job 28:3

A Conservative Version

[Man] sets an end to darkness, and searches out to the furthest bound the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

Cross References

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 great tribulation that God has given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

Luke 16:8

And his lord commended the unrighteous manager because he did shrewdly. Because the sons of this age are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of the light.

Matthew 6:33

But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Habakkuk 2:13

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

Proverbs 2:4

if thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures,

Job 12:22

He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

Job 28:2

Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is molten out of the stone.

Job 28:4

He breaks open a shaft away from where men sojourn, [paths] forgotten by the foot. 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 blackness come upon it.