NET Bible
"Man puts an end to the darkness; he searches the farthest recesses for the ore in the deepest darkness."
— Job 28:3, NET Bible
“He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth 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. ”
“Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.”
“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.”
“Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.”
“He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.”
III. Job’s Search for Wisdom(28:1-28)No Known Road to Wisdom“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is refined.
Iron is taken from the ground, and rock is poured out as copper.
Man puts an end to the darkness; he searches the farthest recesses for the ore in the deepest darkness.
Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.
The earth, from which food comes, is overturned below as though by fire;
a place whose stones are sapphires and which contains dust of gold;