Job 29:3
In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk [through] darkness.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
In Context
2Who doth make 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 upon my tent.
Cross References
Job 18:6The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
Job 22:28And thou decreest a saying, And it is established to thee, And on thy ways hath light shone.
Psalms 18:28For Thou — Thou lightest my lamp, Jehovah my God enlighteneth my darkness.
Psalms 23:4Also — when I walk in a valley of death-shade, I fear no evil, for Thou [art] with me, Thy rod and Thy staff — they comfort me.
Psalms 84:11For a sun and a shield [is] Jehovah God, Grace and honour doth Jehovah give. He withholdeth not good To those walking in uprightness.
Proverbs 13:9The light of the righteous rejoiceth, 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 →