Job 29:3
When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
In Context
4As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle?
Cross References
Job 18:6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him, shall be put out.
Job 22:28Thou shalt decree a thing, and it I shall come to thee, and light shall shine in thy ways.
Psalms 18:28For thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down the eyes of the proud.
Psalms 23:4For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they have comforted me.
Psalms 84:11For better is one day in thy courts above thousands. I have chosen to be an abject in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners.
Proverbs 13:9The light of the just giveth joy: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
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 →