Job 29:3
At that time, his lamp shined over my head, and by his light, I walked through the darkness.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
In Context
4I was then just as in the days of my youth, when God was privately in my tabernacle.
Cross References
Job 18:6Light will become darkness in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him will be extinguished.
Job 22:28You will decide on something, and it will come to you, and the light will shine in your ways.
Psalms 23:4The innocent of hands and the clean of heart, who has not received his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbor.
Psalms 84:11Mercy and truth have met each other. Justice and peace have kissed.
Proverbs 13:9The light of the just enriches. But the lamp of the impious will be extinguished.
Matthew Henry on Job 29:2-7
Former Prosperity of Job. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, 2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; 3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; 4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle; 5 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me; 6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; Losers may have leave to speak, and… Read the whole commentary →