³ `Man' setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

¹³ And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

²¹ Before I go whence I shall not return, `Even' to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

²² The land dark as midnight, `The land' of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.

²² He uncovereth deep things out of darkness, And bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

¹⁶ Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?

¹⁷ Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? Or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?

⁴ If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:

¹³ Behold, is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

³³ But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

⁸ And his lord commended the unrighteous steward because he had done wisely: for the sons of this world are for their own generation wiser than the sons of the light.