Job 28:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

Job 28:3 —

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Cross-References

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Ecclesiastes 1:13
And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
Habakkuk 2:13
Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
Job 10:21-22
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; …
Proverbs 2:4
If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
Job 38:16-17
Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-11)

Here Job shows, 1. What a great way the wit of man may go in diving into the depths of nature and seizing the riches of it, what a great deal of knowledge and wealth men may, by their ingenious and industrious searches, make themselves masters of. But does it therefore follow that men may, by their wit, comprehend the reasons why some wicked people prosper and others are punished, why some good pe…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. “Man makes an end of darkness,” by exploring the darkest depths (with torches). all perfection--rather, carries out his search to the utmost perfection; most thoroughly searches the stones of darkness and of the shadow of death (thickest gloom); that is, the stones, whatever they be, embedded in the darkest bowels of the earth [Umbreit] (Job 26:10).