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
- end, limit, of space or time; Ge. 19:4 from every end. i.e. from all parts, at the end of three days
- the whole, the sum.
- fem. dec. 11a
- end, extremity of space, at the extreme part.
- the whole, the sum, mass, e.g. of people.
Davidson Analytical hebrew and Chaldee Lexiconn page DCLXIII
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