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Job 28:3

WEB

3Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

KJV

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

BSB

3Man puts an end to the darkness; he probes the farthest recesses for ore in deepest darkness.

FBV

3Miners take lamps into the darkness underground and search for ore as far as they can go in the shadows and the gloom.


Extra References

Ecclesiastes 1:13

13I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God [+] has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.


Luke 16:8

8His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.


Matthew 6:33

33But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.


Proverbs 2:4

4if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;


Job 38:16-17

16Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep? 17Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?


Job 12:22

22He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.


Job 10:21-22

21before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; 22the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’”


Habakkuk 2:13

13Behold, isn’t it from the LORD of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?