Job 28:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 1:13 : 13 And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?
  • Matt 6:33 : 33 But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.
  • Luke 16:8 : 8 And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.
  • Job 10:21-22 : 21 Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black, 22 A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.
  • Job 12:22 : 22 Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;
  • Job 38:16-17 : 16 Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep? 17 Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?
  • Prov 2:4 : 4 If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 12:22
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    22Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;

  • Job 28:1-2
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    1Truly there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is washed out.

    2Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone is changed into brass by the fire.

  • Job 38:16-20
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    76%

    16Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

    17Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?

    18Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.

    19Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

    20So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?

  • Job 10:21-22
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    76%

    21Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

    22A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

  • Job 34:21-22
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    75%

    21For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.

    22There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.

  • Dan 2:22
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    22He is the unveiler of deep and secret things: he has knowledge of what is in the dark, and the light has its living-place with him.

  • Job 28:9-12
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    75%

    9Man puts out his hand on the hard rock, overturning mountains by the roots.

    10He makes deep ways, cut through the rock, and his eye sees everything of value.

    11He keeps back the streams from flowing, and makes the secret things come out into the light.

    12But where may wisdom be seen? and where is the resting-place of knowledge?

  • Job 28:27
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    27Then he saw it, and put it on record; he gave it its fixed form, searching it out completely.

  • Job 3:4-6
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    4That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;

    5Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

    6That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

  • Job 28:23-24
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    73%

    23God has knowledge of the way to it, and of its resting-place;

    24For his eyes go to the ends of the earth, and he sees everything under heaven.

  • Job 22:11
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    11Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

    12Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.

  • Lam 3:6
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    6He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

  • Job 36:30
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    30See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it.

  • Job 26:10
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    10By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

  • Job 19:8
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    8My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

  • Job 23:17
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    17For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

  • Job 29:3
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    3When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.

  • Job 18:6
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    6The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

  • Job 28:4
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    4He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord.

  • Job 38:13
    71%

    13So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

    17For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

  • Nah 1:8
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    8But like water overflowing he will take them away; he will put an end to those who come up against him, driving his haters into the dark.

  • Job 17:12
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    12They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.

  • Job 28:6
    71%

    6Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.

  • Lam 3:2
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    2By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.

  • Ps 18:11
    70%

    11He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

  • Job 20:26
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    26All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.

  • Jer 13:16
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    16Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

  • Job 37:3
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    3He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.

  • Amos 5:8
    70%

    8Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;

  • Ps 18:28
    70%

    28You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.

  • Job 22:13
    70%

    13And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?

  • Ps 107:10
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    10Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;