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

⁸“His 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

¹⁶“Have 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.

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?