Job 28:3

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 1:13 : 13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
  • Matt 6:33 : 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
  • Luke 16:8 : 8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
  • Job 10:21-22 : 21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; 22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
  • Job 12:22 : 22 He discovereth 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 search of the depth? 17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
  • Prov 2:4 : 4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;

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    22He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

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    1Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.

    2Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.

  • Job 38:16-20
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    16Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?

    17Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?

    18Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.

    19Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

    20That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?

  • Job 10:21-22
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    21Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

    22A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

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

    22There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, 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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    9He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.

    10He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.

    11He bindeth the floods from overflowing; 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
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    27Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

  • Job 3:4-6
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    4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

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

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

  • Job 28:23-24
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    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, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

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    11If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

    12Yea, 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 set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

  • Job 36:30
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    30Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

  • Job 26:10
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    10He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

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

  • Job 23:17
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    17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

  • Job 29:3
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    3When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

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    6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

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    4The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.

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

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    16In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

    17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

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    8But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

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    12They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

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    6The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.

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    2He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

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    11He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

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    26All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

  • Jer 13:16
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    16Give glory to the LORD 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.

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    3He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.

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    8Seek him that maketh the seven stars 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: The LORD is his name:

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    28For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

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    13And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

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    10Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;