Job 28:3
Good News Translation
Miners explore the deepest darkness. They search the depths of the earth And dig for rocks in the darkness.

New Revised Standard Version
Miners put an end to darkness, and search out to the farthest bound the ore in gloom and deep darkness.

Contemporary English Version
Miners carry lanterns deep into the darkness to search for these metals.

New American Bible
He sets a boundary for the darkness; the farthest confines he explores.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Job 28:2
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