Devine Scripture

Job 29:3

Job chapter 29 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;

Context

v.2Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;

v.3This passage

v.4As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was upon my tent;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ephesians 5:14

    Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.

  • Proverbs 20:20

    Whoso curseth his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

  • Psalms 84:11

    For Jehovah God is a sun and a shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

  • Proverbs 13:9

    The light of the righteous rejoiceth; But the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

  • Ephesians 5:8

    for ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light

  • Job 18:6

    The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.