King James Version
Job 28:3 in the King James Version says “He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.” — study this verse from Job chapter 28 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.”
Job 28:3 · KJV
Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it. vein: or, mine
Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone. earth: or, dust
He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“He setteth”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
“to darkness”
H2822the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“and the shadow of death”
H6757shade of death, i.e., the grave (figuratively, calamity)
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