³ Man sets an end to darkness, And searches out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

¹³ I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

²¹ Before I go where I shall not return from, To the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

²² The land dark as midnight, Of the shadow of death, without any order, Where the light is as midnight.'"

²² He uncovers deep things out of darkness, And brings out to light the shadow of death.

¹⁶ "Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

¹⁷ Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

⁴ If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures:

¹³ Behold, isn't it of Yahweh of Hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

³³ But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

⁸ "His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.