King James Version

Job 28:3

He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

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קֵ֤ץqetsborderקֵץnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “border”, the ordinary formH7093an extremity; adverbially (with prepositional prefix) after[phrase] after, (utmost) border, end, (in-) finite, [idiom] process.שָׂ֤םsamputשׂוּםverb, qal, participle, absolute — “put”, a verb used as a describing wordH7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)[idiom] any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, [phrase] disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, [phrase]…לַחֹ֗שֶׁךְlachoshekhto darkחֹשֶׁךְpreposition, with the article, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “to dark”, the ordinary formH2822the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickednessdark(-ness), night, obscurity.וּֽלְכָלulekhaland to allכֹּלconjunction, preposition, noun, common, masculine, singular, construct — “and to all”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH3605properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)(in) all (manner, (ye)), altogether, any (manner), enough, every (one, place, thing), howsoever, as many as, (no-) thing, ought, whatsoever, (the) whole, whoso(-ever).תַּ֭כְלִיתtakhlitperfectתַּכְלִיתnoun, common, feminine, singular, absolute — “perfect”, the ordinary formH8503completion; by implication, an extremityend, perfect(-ion).ה֣וּאhuas for herהוּאpronoun, personal, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “as for her”H1931he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or arehe, as for her, him(-self), it, the same, she (herself), such, that (...it), these, they, this, those, which (is), who.חוֹקֵ֑רchoqerfind outחָקַרverb, qal, participle, absolute — “find out”, a verb used as a describing wordH2713properly, to penetrate; hence, to examine intimatelyfind out, (make) search (out), seek (out), sound, try.אֶ֖בֶןevenstoneאֶבֶןnoun, common, feminine, singular, construct — “stone”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH68a stone[phrase] carbuncle, [phrase] mason, [phrase] plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-) stone(-ny), (divers) weight(-s).אֹ֣פֶלofeldarknessאֹפֶלnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “darkness”, the ordinary formH652duskdarkness, obscurity, privily.וְצַלְמָֽוֶתvetsalmavetand shadow of deathצַלְמָוֶתconjunction, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “and shadow of death”, the ordinary formH6757shade of death, i.e. the grave (figuratively, calamity)shadow of death.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

Man setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out to the furthest bound the stones of thick darkness and of the shadow of death.

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American Standard Version (1901)

Man setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

Young’s Literal Translation

An end hath he set to darkness, And to all perfection he is searching, A stone of darkness and death-shade.

World English Bible

Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

Darby Translation

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

Douay-Rheims

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.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

Man setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out to the furthest bound the stones of thick darkness and of the shadow of death.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

He has set a bound to darkness, and he searches out every limit: a stone is darkness, and the shadow of death.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Τάξιν ἔθετο σκότει, καὶ πᾶν πέρας αὐτὸς ἐξακριβάζεται, λίθος σκοτία, καὶ σκιὰ θανάτου.