Job 28:3
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He hath set a time for darkness, and the end of all things he considereth, the stone also that is in the dark and the shadow of death.

searcheth

Proverbs 2:4 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God:

Ecclesiastes 1:13 And I proposed in my mind to seek and search out wisely concerning all things that are done under the sun. This painful occupation hath God given to the children of men, to be exercised therein.

Habakkuk 2:13 Are not these things from the Lord of hosts? for the people shall labour in a great fire: and the nations in vain, and they shall faint.

Matthew 6:33 Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.

Luke 16:8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, forasmuch as he had done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.

the stones

Job 10:21,22 Before I go and return no more, to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death: . . .

Job 12:22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth up to light the shadow of death.

Job 38:16,17 Hast thou entered into the depths of the sea, and walked in the lowest parts of the deep? . . .

Context
Where Can Wisdom Be Found?
2Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone melted with heat is turned into brass. 3He hath set a time for darkness, and the end of all things he considereth, the stone also that is in the dark and the shadow of death.4The flood divideth from the people that are on their journey, those whom the food of the needy man hath forgotten, and who cannot be come at.…
Cross References
Job 28:2
Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone melted with heat is turned into brass.

Job 28:4
The flood divideth from the people that are on their journey, those whom the food of the needy man hath forgotten, and who cannot be come at.

Ecclesiastes 1:13
And I proposed in my mind to seek and search out wisely concerning all things that are done under the sun. This painful occupation hath God given to the children of men, to be exercised therein.

Lexicon
[Man] puts
שָׂ֤ם (śām)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

an end
קֵ֤ץ ׀ (qêṣ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7093: An extremity, after

to the darkness;
לַחֹ֗שֶׁךְ (la·ḥō·šeḵ)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2822: The dark, darkness, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness

he
ה֣וּא (hū)
Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

probes
חוֹקֵ֑ר (ḥō·w·qêr)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2713: To penetrate, to examine intimately

the farthest recesses
וּֽלְכָל־ (ū·lə·ḵāl-)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

for ore
אֶ֖בֶן (’e·ḇen)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 68: A stone

in deepest darkness.
אֹ֣פֶל (’ō·p̄el)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 652: Darkness, gloom


Additional Translations
Man puts an end to the darkness; he probes the farthest recesses for ore in deepest darkness.He sets an end to darkness, and searches out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

Man'setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

He has set a bound to darkness, and he searches out every limit: a stone is darkness, and the shadow of death.

[Man] putteth an end to the darkness, and exploreth to the utmost limit, the stones of darkness and of the shadow of death.

Man setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out to the furthest bound the stones of thick darkness and of the shadow of death.

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

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

An end hath he set to darkness, And to all perfection he is searching, A stone of darkness and death-shade.
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