Job 28:3

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Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out to the farthest limits for ore buried in deep darkness.

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  • Eccl 1:13 : 13 I set my heart to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. What a burdensome task God has given to the human race to occupy themselves with!
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 Is it not from the LORD of Hosts that peoples labor for fire and nations grow weary for nothing?
  • Matt 6:33 : 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
  • Luke 16:8 : 8 The master praised the dishonest manager for acting shrewdly, because the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light.
  • Job 10:21-22 : 21 Before I go, never to return, to a land of darkness and deep shadow. 22 A land of gloom like deep darkness, a land of shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.
  • Job 12:22 : 22 He reveals the deep things from darkness and brings deep shadows into the light.
  • Job 38:16-17 : 16 Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep? 17 Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of deepest darkness?
  • Prov 2:4 : 4 if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures,

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  • Job 12:22
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    22He reveals the deep things from darkness and brings deep shadows into the light.

  • Job 28:1-2
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    1Surely there is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.

    2Iron is taken from the ground, and copper is smelted from ore.

  • Job 38:16-20
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    16Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep?

    17Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of deepest darkness?

    18Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this.

    19Where is the way that light dwells, and where is the place of darkness,

    20that you may take it to its boundary and recognize the paths to its home?

  • Job 10:21-22
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    21Before I go, never to return, to a land of darkness and deep shadow.

    22A land of gloom like deep darkness, a land of shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.

  • Job 34:21-22
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    21For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees all his steps.

    22There is no darkness or deep shadow where evildoers can hide themselves.

  • Dan 2:22
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    22He reveals deep and hidden things; He knows what is in the darkness, and light dwells with Him.

  • Job 28:9-12
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    9Man lays his hand on the hardest rock and overturns mountains from their roots.

    10He carves out channels through the rocks, and his eyes see every precious thing.

    11He dams up streams to stop their flow, and brings to light what is hidden.

    12But where can wisdom be found, and where is the place of understanding?

  • Job 28:27
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    27then He saw it and declared it; He established it and also examined it.

  • Job 3:4-6
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    4May that day be darkness; may God above not seek it, nor let light shine upon it.

    5Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let blackness of the day terrify it.

    6As for that night, let thick darkness seize it; let it not be joined to the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

  • Job 28:23-24
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    23God understands its way, and He knows its place.

    24For He looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.

  • Job 22:11
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    11It is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of waters covers you.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11If I say, 'Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,'

    12even the darkness will not be dark to You; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to You.

  • Lam 3:6
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    6He has made me dwell in dark places, like those long dead.

  • Job 36:30
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    30Behold, He spreads His light over it and covers the depths of the sea.

  • Job 26:10
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    10He inscribed a circle on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.

  • Job 19:8
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    8He has blocked my path so I cannot pass; He has shrouded my ways with darkness.

  • Job 23:17
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    17Yet I am not silenced by the darkness or by the deep gloom that covers my face.

  • Job 29:3
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    3when His lamp shone upon my head, and I walked by His light through the darkness.

  • Job 18:6
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    6The light in his tent will grow dark, and the lamp above him will be extinguished.

  • Job 28:4
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    4He cuts a shaft far from where people dwell; forgotten by travelers, they dangle and swing to and fro far from humankind.

  • Job 38:13
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    13that it might take hold of the edges of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16In the darkness, they break into houses, but by day, they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

    17For to them, the morning is like deep darkness; they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • Nah 1:8
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    8But with an overwhelming flood he will make an end of Nineveh; he will pursue his enemies into darkness.

  • Job 17:12
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    12They make night into day: ‘The light is near,’ they say, in the presence of darkness.

  • Job 28:6
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    6Its rocks are the source of sapphires, and it contains dust of gold.

  • Lam 3:2
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    2He has driven me away and brought me into darkness, not into light.

  • Ps 18:11
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    11He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.

  • Job 20:26
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    26Total darkness is hidden for his treasures; a fire not kindled by man will consume him and devour what remains in his tent.

  • Jer 13:16
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    16Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, and before your feet stumble on the darkening mountains. You hope for light, but He will turn it to gloom and thick darkness.

  • Job 37:3
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    3He unleashes it under the whole sky, and His lightning to the edges of the earth.

  • Amos 5:8
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    8He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns deep darkness into morning and darkens day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth—the Lord is his name.

  • Ps 18:28
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    28You save a humble people, but You bring low those whose eyes are haughty.

  • Job 22:13
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    13But you say, 'What does God know? Can He judge through such thick darkness?'

  • Ps 107:10
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    10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in misery and chains.