Job 28:3
“Hee setteth an ende to darkenesse, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkenesse and the shadow of death.”
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Job 28:3 Context
1Surely there is a veine for the siluer, and a place for golde where they fine it. 2Iron is taken out of the earth, and brasse is molten out of the stone. 3Hee setteth an ende to darkenesse, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkenesse and the shadow of death. 4The floud breaketh out from the inhabitant; euen the waters forgotten of the foote: they are dried vp, they are gone away from men. 5As for the earth, out of it commeth bread: and vnder it, is turned vp as it were fire.
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Other Translations for Job 28:3
He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
- King James Version
"{Man} puts an end to darkness, And to the farthest limit he searches out The rock in gloom and deep shadow.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
`Man' setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.
- Basic English Bible
[Man] putteth an end to the darkness, and exploreth to the utmost limit, the stones of darkness and of the shadow of death.
- Darby Bible
He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shades of death.
- Webster's Bible
Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
- World English Bible
An end hath he set to darkness, And to all perfection he is searching, A stone of darkness and death-shade.
- Youngs Literal Bible
Man setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out to the furthest bound the stones of thick darkness and of the shadow of death.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Job 28:3
28:3 Perfection - Whatever is deeply wrought in the deepest caverns. Stones of darkness - The precious stones which lie hid in the dark bowels of the earth, where no living thing can dwell.