Job 29:3
In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, || By His light I walk [through] darkness.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
In Context
2“Who makes me as [in] months past, || As [in] the days of God’s preserving me?
4As I have been in days of my maturity, || And the counsel of God on my tent.
Cross References
Job 18:6The light has been dark in his tent, || And his lamp over him is extinguished.
Job 22:28And you decree a saying, || And it is established to you, || And light has shone on your ways.
Psalms 18:28For You light my lamp, || My God YHWH enlightens my darkness.
Psalms 23:4Also—when I walk in a valley of death-shade, || I fear no evil, for You [are] with me, || Your rod and Your staff—they comfort me.
Psalms 84:11For YHWH God [is] a sun and a shield, || YHWH gives grace and glory. He does not withhold good || To those walking in uprightness.
Proverbs 13:9The light of the righteous rejoices, || And the lamp of the wicked is 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 →