Darkness: לַחֹ֗שֶׁךְ – choshek

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

(Job 28:3) KJV

Darkness: לַחֹ֗שֶׁךְ – choshek

  • fut. – to be or become obscure, dark.
  • Hiph.
    1. to darken, make dark, obscure.
    2. to cause darkness, Ps. 139:12; Je. 13:16.
  • adj. masc., pl. obscure, mean, Pr. 22:29
  • masc. dec. 6c. –
    1. darkness
    2. calamity, misery.
    3. ignorance, Job 37:19.

During the formation of planet Earth, the action of the particles moving to form the core of the Earth is pictured in the sense of sinking into darkness and obscurity.

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To put, place, set: שָׂ֤ם – sum

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

(Job 28:3) KJV

Mass sinks in time, into stratified layers of sediment: a solid core on fire in the darkness, sunk in the shadow of death.

(Job 28:3) MP Technical Paraphrase

Setteth: שָׂ֤ם – sum

  • I. there, in that place; where; here-there; thence; whence.
  • II. thither, after verbs of motion, wither.
  • III. then, at that time.
  • IV. thither; rarely, there; whither, – rarely where.

Davidson Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon page DCCXXII

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At the end of time: קֵ֤ץ – qets

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

(Job 28:3) KJV

Mass sinks in time, into stratified layers of sediment: a solid core on fire in the darkness, sunk in the shadow of death.

(Job 28:3) MP Technical Paraphrase

An end: קֵ֤ץ – qets

This means end, limit, of space or time. Could we be talking about the end of all mass? Or are we talking about the end of time, as in, time stops?

  • to cut off, destroy, Hab. 2:10
  • Pi. to cut off.
  • Hiph. to scrape off, Le. 14:41, 43
  • masc. dec. 9b
    1. end, limit, of space or time; Ge. 19:4 from every end. i.e. from all parts, at the end of three days
    2. the whole, the sum.
  • fem. dec. 11a
    1. end, extremity of space, at the extreme part.
    2. the whole, the sum, mass, e.g. of people.

Davidson Analytical hebrew and Chaldee Lexiconn page DCLXIII

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Gravity as a Process

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

(Job 28:3) KJV

There are some eyebrow-raising translations of this verse which have been rendered by people who were trying very hard to make sense out of it. Here’s an example:

Miners explore the deepest darkness.
They search the depths of the earth And dig for rocks in the darkness.

(Job 28:3) Good News Translation
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A Pearl of Great Price

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it.

(Matthew 13:44-46) NKJV

We had a dream recently (September 19, 2020). We saw a pearl. In the dream we were shown that the formation of a pearl is a picture of core accretion and planet formation.

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