Man puts an end to darkness and searches out to the farthest limit the ore in gloom and deep darkness.
And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.
The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Behold, is it not from the Lord of hosts that peoples labor merely for fire, and nations weary themselves for nothing?
if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures,
“Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep? Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
He uncovers the deeps out of darkness and brings deep darkness to light.
before I go—and I shall not return— to the land of darkness and deep shadow, the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness.”
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