Job 29:3

Job's Final Defense

² If only I could be as in months gone by,
in the days when God watched over me,
³ when His lamp shone above my head,
and I walked through darkness by His light!
⁴ I would be as I was in the days of my youth
when God’s friendship rested on my tent,

In the Darkness

Job

Job 18:6

The light in his tent grows dark,
and the lamp beside him is put out.

Psalm 18:28

Lord, You light my lamp;
my God illuminates my darkness.

Job 11:17

Your life will be brighter than noonday;
its darkness will be like the morning.

Job 21:17

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out?
Does disaster come on them?
Does He apportion destruction in His anger?

Job 22:28

When you make a decision, it will be carried out,
and light will shine on your ways.

Psalm 4:6

Many are saying, “Who can show us anything good?”
Look on us with favor, Lord.

Psalm 23:4

Even when I go through the darkest valley,
I fear no danger,
for You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff—they comfort me.

Psalm 27:1

Davidic.The Lord is my light and my salvation—
whom should I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life—
of whom should I be afraid?

Psalm 84:11

For the Lord God is a sun and shield.
The Lord gives grace and glory;
He does not withhold the good
from those who live with integrity.

Proverbs 13:9

The light of the righteous shines brightly,
but the lamp of the wicked is put out.

Proverbs 20:20

Whoever curses his father or mother—
his lamp will go out in deep darkness.

Proverbs 24:20

For the evil have no future;
the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

Isaiah 2:4

He will settle disputes among the nations
and provide arbitration for many peoples.
They will turn their swords into plows
and their spears into pruning knives.
Nations will not take up the sword against other nations,
and they will never again train for war.

John 8:12

Then Jesus spoke to them again: “I am the light of the world. Anyone who follows Me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light of life.”

John 12:46

I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me would not remain in darkness.

Ephesians 5:8

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light—

Ephesians 5:14

for what makes everything clear is light. Therefore it is said:

Get up, sleeper, and rise up from the dead,
and the Messiah will shine on you.