Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

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

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 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 watched over me; 3 when His lamp shone on my head; I walked through darkness by His light; 4 as I was in the days of my harvest, when the secret of God was on my tent;

Cross References

Job 18:6

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

Psalm 18:28

For You will light my candle; Jehovah my God will make my darkness light.

Job 11:17

And your lifetime shall be clearer than the noonday; though there be darkness, you shall be as the morning.

Job 21:17

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and their trouble comes on them! He shares out pains in His anger;

Job 22:28

You shall also order a thing, and it shall be fulfilled to you; and the light shall shine on your ways.

Psalm 4:6

There are many who say, Who will show us any good? Jehovah, lift up the light of Your face on us.

Psalm 23:4

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your 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 God is a sun and shield; Jehovah will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.

Proverbs 13:9

The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

Proverbs 20:20

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.

Proverbs 24:20

for there shall not be a hereafter to the evil; the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

Isaiah 2:4

And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

John 8:12

Then Jesus spoke again to them, saying, I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

John 12:46

I have come as a Light into the world, so that whoever believes on Me should 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

Therefore he says, "Awake, sleeping ones! And arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light."

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