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Job 28

Job 28:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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He setteth
suwm (Hebrew #7760)
a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.
Pronounce: soom
Origin: or siym {seem}
an end
qets (Hebrew #7093)
an extremity; adverbially (with prepositional prefix) after
KJV usage: + after, (utmost) border, end, (in-)finite, X process.
Pronounce: kates
Origin: contracted from 7112
to darkness
choshek (Hebrew #2822)
the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
KJV usage: dark(-ness), night, obscurity.
Pronounce: kho-shek'
Origin: from 2821
, and searcheth out
chaqar (Hebrew #2713)
properly, to penetrate; hence, to examine intimately
KJV usage: find out, (make) search (out), seek (out), sound, try.
Pronounce: khaw-kar'
Origin: a primitive root
all perfection
takliyth (Hebrew #8503)
completion; by implication, an extremity
KJV usage: end, perfect(-ion).
Pronounce: tak-leeth'
Origin: from 3615
: the stones
'eben (Hebrew #68)
a stone
KJV usage: + carbuncle, + mason, + plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-)stone(-ny), (divers) weight(-s).
Pronounce: eh'-ben
Origin: from the root of 1129 through the meaning to build
of darkness
'ophel (Hebrew #652)
dusk
KJV usage: darkness, obscurity, privily.
Pronounce: o'fel
Origin: from the same as 651
, and the shadow of death
tsalmaveth (Hebrew #6757)
shade of death, i.e. the grave (figuratively, calamity)
KJV usage: shadow of death.
Pronounce: tsal-maw'-veth
Origin: from 6738 and 4194
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More on:

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Darkness,
Death,
Stones

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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searcheth.
Prov. 2:4• 4If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; (Prov. 2:4)
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Eccl. 1:13• 13And 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. (Eccl. 1:13)
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Hab. 2:13• 13Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts that the people shall labor in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity? (Hab. 2:13)
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Matt. 6:33• 33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. (Matt. 6:33)
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Luke 16:8• 8And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. (Luke 16:8)
the stones.
Job 10:21‑22• 21Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
 22A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness. (Job 10:21‑22)
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Job 12:22• 22He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death. (Job 12:22)
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Job 38:16‑17• 16Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
 17Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death? (Job 38:16‑17)
• In his search after these treasures, man delves into the dark recesses of the earth with his lamp, making an end to the darkness as he penetrates into the farthest extremities (rather than “perfection”) of the mines, searching for those ore-laden “stones of darkness” —stones hidden in the darkness. The bowels of the earth are like the shadow of death, and often entomb the hardy miner in their depths, but nothing holds him back. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Manf putteth an end to the darkness, and exploreth to the utmost limit, the stones of darkness and of the shadow of death.

JND Translation Notes

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i.e. the miner.