Devine Scripture

Job 28:3

Job chapter 28 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.2Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is molten out of the stone.

v.3This passage

v.4He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn; They are forgotten of the foot; They hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 12:22

    He uncovereth deep things out of darkness, And bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

  • Job 38:16

    Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?

  • Job 10:21

    Before I go whence I shall not return, Evento the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

  • Luke 16:8

    And his lord commended the unrighteous steward because he had done wisely: for the sons of this world are for their own generation wiser than the sons of the light.

  • Proverbs 2:4

    If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:

  • Ecclesiastes 1:13

    And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.