Job 28:3

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Man puts an end to the darkness; he searches the farthest recesses for the ore in the deepest darkness.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 1:13 : 13 I decided to carefully and thoroughly examine all that has been accomplished on earth. I concluded: God has given people a burdensome task that keeps them occupied.
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 Be sure of this! The LORD of Heaven’s Armies has decreed: The nations’ efforts will go up in smoke; their exhausting work will be for nothing.
  • Matt 6:33 : 33 But above all pursue his kingdom and righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
  • Luke 16:8 : 8 The master commended the dishonest manager because he acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their contemporaries than the people of light.
  • Job 10:21-22 : 21 before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow, 22 to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
  • Job 12:22 : 22 He reveals the deep things of darkness, and brings deep shadows into the light.
  • Job 38:16-17 : 16 Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep? 17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of deepest darkness?
  • Prov 2:4 : 4 if you seek it like silver, and search for it like hidden treasure,

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

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  • Job 38:16-20
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    16Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?

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

    18Have you considered the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know it all!

    19“In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,

    20that you may take them to their borders and perceive the pathways to their homes?

  • Job 10:21-22
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    21before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

    22to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest 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 an individual, he observes all a person’s steps.

    22There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, 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 resides with him.

  • Job 28:9-12
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    9On the flinty rock man has set to work with his hand; he has overturned mountains at their bases.

    10He has cut out channels through the rocks; his eyes have spotted every precious thing.

    11He has searched the sources of the rivers and what was hidden he has brought into the light.

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  • Job 28:27
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    27then he looked at wisdom and assessed its value; he established it and examined it closely.

  • Job 3:4-6
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    4That day– let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!

    5Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!

    6That night– let darkness seize it; let it not be included among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months!

  • Job 28:23-24
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    23God understands the way to it, and he alone knows its place.

    24For he looks to the ends of the earth and observes everything under the heavens.

  • Job 22:11
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    11why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11If I were to say,“Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,”

    12even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you.

  • Job 41:32
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    32It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had a head of white hair.

  • Lam 3:6
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    6He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.

  • Job 36:30
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    30See how he scattered his lightning about him; he has covered the depths of the sea.

  • Job 26:10
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    10He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.

  • Job 19:8
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    8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

  • Job 23:17
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    17Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

  • Job 29:3
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    3when he caused his lamp to shine upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

  • Job 18:6
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    6The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.

  • Job 28:4
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    4Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.

  • Job 38:13
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    13that it might seize the corners of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

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

    17For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.

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    8But with an overwhelming flood he will make a complete end of Nineveh; he will drive his enemies into darkness.

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    12These men change night into day; they say,‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’

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    6a place whose stones are sapphires and which contains dust of gold;

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    2He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.

  • Ps 18:11
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    11He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

  • Job 20:26
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    26Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

  • Jer 13:16
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    16Show the LORD your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile.

  • Job 37:3
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    3Under the whole heaven he lets it go, even his lightning to the far corners of the earth.

  • Amos 5:8
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    8(But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion; he can turn the darkness into morning and daylight into night. He summons the water of the seas and pours it out on the earth’s surface. The LORD is his name!

  • Ps 18:28
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    28Indeed, you light my lamp, LORD. My God illuminates the darkness around me.

  • Job 22:13
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    13But you have said,‘What does God know? Does he judge through such deep darkness?

  • Ps 107:10
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    10They sat in utter darkness, bound in painful iron chains,