Job 28:3

World English Bible (2000)

Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 1:13 : 13 I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 Behold, isn't it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
  • Matt 6:33 : 33 But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
  • Luke 16:8 : 8 "His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.
  • Job 10:21-22 : 21 before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; 22 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"
  • Job 12:22 : 22 He uncovers 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 gates of the shadow of death?
  • Prov 2:4 : 4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 12:22
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    22He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

  • Job 28:1-2
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    1"Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.

    2Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.

  • Job 38:16-20
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    76%

    16"Have 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 gates of the shadow of death?

    18Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all.

    19"What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

    20that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?

  • Job 10:21-22
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    76%

    21before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

    22the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"

  • Job 34:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    21"For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.

    22There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

  • Dan 2:22
    75%

    22he reveals the deep and secret things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

  • Job 28:9-12
    4 verses
    75%

    9He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.

    10He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.

    11He binds the streams that they don't trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light.

    12"But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

  • Job 28:27
    74%

    27then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yes, and searched it out.

  • Job 3:4-6
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    74%

    4Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

    5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

    6As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.

  • Job 28:23-24
    2 verses
    73%

    23"God understands its way, and he knows its place.

    24For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole sky.

  • Job 22:11
    73%

    11or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    73%

    11If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"

    12even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

  • Job 41:32
    73%

    32He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.

  • Lam 3:6
    72%

    6He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

  • Job 36:30
    72%

    30Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.

  • Job 26:10
    72%

    10He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

  • Job 19:8
    72%

    8He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

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

  • Job 29:3
    72%

    3when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

  • Job 18:6
    72%

    6The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.

  • Job 28:4
    71%

    4He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.

  • Job 38:13
    71%

    13that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

    17For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

  • Nah 1:8
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    8But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

  • Job 17:12
    71%

    12They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

  • Job 28:6
    71%

    6Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.

  • Lam 3:2
    71%

    2He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

  • Ps 18:11
    70%

    11He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

  • Job 20:26
    70%

    26All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

  • Jer 13:16
    70%

    16Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on 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
    70%

    3He sends it forth under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.

  • Amos 5:8
    70%

    8seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

  • Ps 18:28
    70%

    28For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

  • Job 22:13
    70%

    13You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

  • Ps 107:10
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    10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,