Parallel Verses

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;

Bible in Basic English

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

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 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 God was familiar in my tent;

Cross References

Job 18:6

The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

Psalm 18:28

For thou wilt light my fire: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

Job 11:17

and thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.

Job 21:17

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out and their destruction comes upon them, and God distributes sorrows upon them in his anger.

Job 22:28

Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

Psalm 4:6

There are many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

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 shall comfort me.

Psalm 27:1

The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Psalm 84:11

For the LORD God is a sun and shield unto us; the LORD will give grace and glory; he will not withhold good from those that walk uprightly.

Proverbs 13:9

The light of the righteous shall rejoice: but the fire of the wicked shall be put out.

Proverbs 20:20

Whosoever curses his father or his mother, his fire shall be put out in obscure darkness.

Proverbs 24:20

for the evil man shall not come to a good end; the fire of the wicked shall be put out.

Isaiah 2:4

And he shall judge among the Gentiles and shall rebuke many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruninghooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

John 8:12

Then Jesus spoke again unto 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 as a light into the world that whosoever believes in me should not abide in darkness.

Ephesians 5:8

For in another time ye were darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord: walk as children of light;

Ephesians 5:14

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

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