Job 28:3

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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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  • Job 12:22
    82%

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

  • Job 28:1-2
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    1 ¶ Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold [where] they fine [it].

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

  • Job 38:16-20
    5 verses
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    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?

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

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

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

  • Job 10:21-22
    2 verses
    76%

    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 34:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    21 For his eyes [are] upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.

    22 [There is] no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

  • Dan 2:22
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    22 He 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%

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

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

    11 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and [the thing that is] hid bringeth he forth to light.

    12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where [is] the place of understanding?

  • Job 28:27
    74%

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

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

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

    6 As [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
    2 verses
    73%

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

    24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, [and] seeth under the whole heaven;

  • Job 22:11
    73%

    11 Or darkness, [that] thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    73%

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

    12 Yea, 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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    32 He maketh a path to shine after him; [one] would think the deep [to be] hoary.

  • Lam 3:6
    72%

    6 He hath set me in dark places, as [they that be] dead of old.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Job 18:6
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    6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

  • Job 28:4
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    4 The 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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    13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

  • Job 24:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

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

    17 For 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.

  • Nah 1:8
    71%

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

  • Job 17:12
    71%

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

  • Job 28:6
    71%

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

  • Lam 3:2
    71%

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

  • Ps 18:11
    70%

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

  • Job 20:26
    70%

    26 All 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
    70%

    16 Give 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.

  • Job 37:3
    70%

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

  • Amos 5:8
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    8 [Seek 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:

  • Ps 18:28
    70%

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

  • Job 22:13
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    13 And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

  • Ps 107:10
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    10 ¶ Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, [being] bound in affliction and iron;