Job 29:3
Good News Translation
God was always with me then and gave me light as I walked through the darkness.

New Revised Standard Version
when his lamp shone over my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

Contemporary English Version
and the light from his lamp showed me the way through the dark.

New American Bible
While he kept his lamp shining above my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

Douay-Rheims Bible
When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?

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Job 18:6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him, shall be put out.

Job 21:17 How often shall the lamp of the wicked be put out, and a deluge come upon them, and he shall distribute the sorrows of his wrath?

Psalm 18:28 For thou lightest my lamp, O Lord: O my God, enlighten my darkness.

Proverbs 13:9 The light of the just giveth joy: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

Proverbs 20:20 He that curseth his father, and mother, his lamp shall be put out in the midst of darkness.

Proverbs 24:20 For evil men have no hope of things to come, and the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

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Job 22:28 Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall come to thee, and light shall shine in thy ways.

Psalm 4:6 The light of thy countenance, O Lord, is signed upon us: thou hast given gladness in my heart.

Psalm 23:4 For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they have comforted me.

Psalm 27:1 The psalm of David before he was anointed. The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life: of whom shall I be afraid?

Psalm 84:11 For God loveth mercy and truth: the Lord will give grace and glory.

Isaiah 2:4 And he shall judge the Gentiles, and rebuke many people: and they shall turn their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they be exercised any more to war.

John 8:12 Again therefore, Jesus spoke to: them, saying: I am the light of the world. He that followeth me walketh not in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

John 12:46 I am come, a light into the world, that whosoever believeth in me may not remain in darkness.

Ephesians 5:8,14 For you were heretofore darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk then as children of the light. . . .

Context
Job's Former Blessings
2Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me? 3When his lamp shined over my head, and I walked by his light in darkness?4As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle?…
Cross References
Job 11:17
And brightness like that of the noonday, shall arise to thee at evening: and when thou shalt think thyself consumed, thou shalt rise as the day star.

Job 18:6
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him, shall be put out.

Proverbs 13:9
The light of the just giveth joy: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

Job 29:2
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