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Bible in Basic English

When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.

New American Standard Bible

When His lamp shone over my head,
And by His light I walked through darkness;

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

when His lamp shone above my head,
and I walked through darkness by His light!

International Standard Version

when his lamp used to shine over my head, so I could walk through the dark,

A Conservative Version

when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


When His lamp shone upon my head
And by His light I walked through darkness;

Darby Translation

When his lamp shone over my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

Julia Smith Translation

In his causing his light to shine upon my head, before his light I shall go through darkness;

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

when his shining lamp [was] over my head-- by his light I walked through darkness--

Modern King James verseion

when His lamp shone on my head; I walked through darkness by His light;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

When his light shined upon my head; when I went after the same light and shining, even through the darkness.

NET Bible

when he caused his lamp to shine upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

New Heart English Bible

when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

The Emphasized Bible

When his lamp shone over my head, by whose light, I could go through darkness;

Webster

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

World English Bible

when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

Youngs Literal Translation

In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk through darkness.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נרה נר ניר נר ניר 
Niyr 
Usage: 48

upon my head
ראשׁ 
Ro'sh 
Usage: 598

and when by his light
אור 
'owr 
Usage: 122

I walked
ילך 
Yalak 
Usage: 0

References

Easton

Morish

Watsons

Context Readings

Job's Final Defense

2 If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me! 3 When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light. 4 As I was in my flowering years, when my tent was covered by the hand of God;


Cross References

Job 18:6

The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

Psalm 18:28

You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.

Job 11:17

And your life will be brighter than day; though it is dark, it will become like the morning.

Job 21:17

How frequently is the light of the evil-doers put out, or does trouble come on them? how frequently does his wrath take them with cords?

Job 22:28

Your purposes will come about, and light will be shining on your ways.

Psalm 4:6

There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.

Psalm 27:1

The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me?

Psalm 84:11

The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.

Proverbs 13:9

There is a glad dawn for the upright man, but the light of the sinner will be put out.

Proverbs 20:20

If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night.

Proverbs 24:20

For there will be no future for the evil man; the light of sinners will be put out.

Isaiah 2:4

And he will be the judge between the nations, and the peoples will be ruled by his decisions: and their swords will be turned into plough-blades, and their spears into vine-knives: no longer will the nations be turning their swords against one another, and the knowledge of war will be gone for ever.

John 8:12

Then again Jesus said to them, I am the light of the world; he who comes with me will not be walking in the dark but will have the light of life.

John 12:46

I have come as a light into the world, so that no one who has faith in me will go on living in the dark.

Ephesians 5:8

For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light

Ephesians 5:14

For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.

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