He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
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Gill's Exposition
He setteth an end to darkness,.... Some understand this and what follows of God, who, by making the luminaries, has fixed the periods and revolutions of light and darkness, of day and night; or who…
Barnes' Notes
He setteth an end to darkness - That is, man does. The reference here is undoubtedly to the operations of mining, and the idea is, that man delves into the darkest regions; he goes even to the outer…
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…
Description of mining operations.
he setteth To prevent ambiguity it is better to translate, man setteth, or, men set. The phrase "setteth an end to darkness" hardly refers to the light shed by the…
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