Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
When his lamp shone over my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
Holman Bible
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;
Bible in Basic English
When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.
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
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 29:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense
2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when +God preserved me; 3 When his lamp shone over my head, and by his light I walked through darkness; 4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret counsel of +God was over my tent,
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 18:6
The light shall become dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.
Psalm 18:28
For it is thou that makest my lamp to shine: Jehovah my God enlighteneth my darkness.
Job 11:17
And life shall arise brighter than noonday; though thou be enshrouded in darkness, thou shalt be as the morning,
Job 21:17
How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and cometh their calamity upon them? Doth he distribute sorrows to them in his anger?
Job 22:28
And thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; and light shall shine upon thy ways.
Psalm 4:6
Many say, Who shall cause us to see good? Lift up upon us the light of thy countenance, O Jehovah.
Psalm 23:4
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
Psalm 27:1
{A Psalm of David.} Jehovah is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalm 84:11
For Jehovah Elohim is a sun and 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.
Proverbs 20:20
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in the blackest darkness.
Proverbs 24:20
for there shall be no future to the evil man; the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Isaiah 2:4
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall reprove many peoples; and they shall forge their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-knives: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
John 8:12
Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world; he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
John 12:46
I am come into the world as light, that every one that believes on me may not abide in darkness;
Ephesians 5:8
for ye were once darkness, but now light in the Lord; walk as children of light,
Ephesians 5:14
Wherefore he says, Wake up, thou that sleepest, and arise up from among the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.