22:5 Is not your wickedness great 1
and is there no end to your iniquity?
28:3 Man puts an end to the darkness; 2
he searches the farthest recesses
for the ore in the deepest darkness. 3
1 tn The adjective רַבָּה (rabbah) normally has the idea of “great” in quantity (“abundant,” ESV) rather than “great” in quality.
2 sn The text appears at first to be saying that by opening up a mine shaft, or by taking lights down below, the miner dispels the darkness. But the clause might be more general, meaning that man goes deep into the earth as if it were day.
3 tn The verse ends with “the stone of darkness and deep darkness.” The genitive would be location, describing the place where the stones are found.