Job 28:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Eccl 1:13 : 13 And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this difficult task God has given to the children of man to be engaged with.
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labor in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for mere vanity?
  • 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 And the master 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 to the place from which I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; 22 A land of darkness, like darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
  • Job 12:22 : 22 He reveals deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
  • Job 38:16-17 : 16 Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep? 17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?
  • Prov 2:4 : 4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;

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    22He reveals deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

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    1Surely there is a source for silver, and a place where gold is refined.

    2Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is melted from the stone.

  • Job 38:16-20
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    16Have 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 doors of the shadow of death?

    18Have you perceived the breadth of the earth? Declare, if you know it all.

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

    20That you may take it to its boundary, and that you may discern the paths to its home?

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

    22A land of darkness, like 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 sees 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 reveals deep and secret things: he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

  • Job 28:9-12
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    9He puts forth his hand on the rock; he overturns the mountains by the roots.

    10He cuts out rivers among the rocks; and his eye sees every precious thing.

    11He binds the floods from overflowing; and the hidden thing he brings 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, indeed, he searched it out.

  • Job 3:4-6
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    4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, nor let the light shine upon it.

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

    6As for that night, let darkness seize it; let it not be included among 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 under the whole heaven,

  • Job 22:11
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    11Or darkness, that you cannot see; and an abundance of waters covers you.

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

    12Yes, the darkness does not hide from You, but the night shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to You.

  • Job 41:32
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    32He makes a path shine after him; one would think the deep to have white hair.

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

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

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

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

  • Job 23:17
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    17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor has he covered the darkness from my face.

  • Job 29:3
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    3When His lamp shone 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 dwelling, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

  • Job 28:4
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    4The flood breaks out from the dweller; even the waters forgotten by the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from mankind.

  • 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?

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16In the dark they break into houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

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

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

  • Job 17:12
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    12They change the night into day; the light is near because of darkness.

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    6Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.

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

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

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    26Total darkness is reserved for his treasures; a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with the one who remains in his tent.

  • Jer 13:16
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    16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

  • Job 37:3
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    3He directs it under the whole heaven, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.

  • Amos 5:8
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    8Seek him that makes the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; that calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:

  • Ps 18:28
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    28For you will light my lamp: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

  • Job 22:13
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    13And you say, 'How does God know? Can He judge through the dense cloud?

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