Job 28:3

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 1:13 : 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.
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 Behold, is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
  • Matt 6:33 : 33 But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
  • Luke 16:8 : 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.
  • Job 10:21-22 : 21 Before I go whence I shall not return, [Even] to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; 22 The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.
  • Job 12:22 : 22 He uncovereth deep things out of darkness, And bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
  • Job 38:16-17 : 16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep? 17 Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? Or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
  • Prov 2:4 : 4 If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 12:22
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    22He uncovereth deep things out of darkness, And bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

  • Job 28:1-2
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    1Surely there is a mine for silver, And a place for gold which they refine.

    2Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is molten out of the stone.

  • Job 38:16-20
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    76%

    16Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?

    17Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? Or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?

    18Hast thou comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if thou knowest it all.

    19Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

    20That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, And that thou shouldest discern the paths to the house thereof?

  • Job 10:21-22
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    76%

    21Before I go whence I shall not return, [Even] to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

    22The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.

  • Job 34:21-22
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    21For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, And he seeth all his goings.

    22There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

  • Dan 2:22
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    22he revealeth the deep and secret things; he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.

  • Job 28:9-12
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    75%

    9He putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock; He overturneth the mountains by the roots.

    10He cutteth out channels among the rocks; And his eye seeth every precious thing.

    11He bindeth the streams that they trickle not; And the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

    12But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

  • Job 28:27
    74%

    27Then did he see it, and declare it; He established it, yea, and searched it out.

  • Job 3:4-6
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    74%

    4Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.

    5Let 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.

    6As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months.

  • Job 28:23-24
    2 verses
    73%

    23God understandeth the way thereof, And he knoweth the place thereof.

    24For he looketh to the ends of the earth, And seeth under the whole heaven;

  • Job 22:11
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    11Or darkness, so that thou canst not see, And abundance of waters cover thee.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, And the light about me shall be night;

    12Even the darkness hideth not from thee, But the night shineth as the day: The darkness and the light are both alike [to thee] .

  • Job 41:32
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    32He maketh a path to shine after him; One would think the deep to be hoary.

  • Lam 3:6
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    6He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

  • Job 36:30
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    30Behold, he spreadeth his light around him; And he covereth the bottom of the sea.

  • Job 26:10
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    10He hath described a boundary upon the face of the waters, Unto the confines of light and darkness.

  • Job 19:8
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    8He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

  • Job 23:17
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    17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

  • Job 29:3
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    3When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;

  • Job 18:6
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    6The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.

  • Job 28:4
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    4He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn; They are forgotten of the foot; They hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.

  • Job 38:13
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    13That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, And the wicked be shaken out of it?

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.

    17For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

  • Nah 1:8
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    8But with an over-running flood he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

  • Job 17:12
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    12They change the night into day: The light, [say they], is near unto the darkness.

  • Job 28:6
    71%

    6The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, And it hath dust of gold.

  • Lam 3:2
    71%

    2He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

  • Ps 18:11
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    11He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round about him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

  • Job 20:26
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    26All darkness is laid up for his treasures: A fire not blown [by man] shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

  • Jer 13:16
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    16Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

  • Job 37:3
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    3He sendeth it forth under the whole heaven, And his lightning unto the ends of the earth.

  • Amos 5:8
    70%

    8[ seek him] that maketh the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth (Jehovah is his name);

  • Ps 18:28
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    28For thou wilt light my lamp: Jehovah my God will lighten my darkness.

  • Job 22:13
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    13And thou sayest, What doth God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

  • Ps 107:10
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    10Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Being bound in affliction and iron,