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Monday, November 25th, 2024
the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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King James Version

Job 18:6

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Lamp;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Candle;   The Topic Concordance - Bearing Fruit;   Knowledge;   Perishing;   Snares;   Wickedness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Lamps;   Light;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Bildad;   Darkness;   Lamp;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Candle;   Darkness;   Tabernacle;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lamp;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Candle;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Lamp;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Candle;   Lamp;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ancestor Worship;   Color;   Lamp, Perpetual;   Light;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
The light in their tent will grow dark. The lamp hanging above them will be quenched.
English Revised Version
The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp above him shall be put out.
Update Bible Version
The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.
New Century Version
The light in their tents will grow dark, and the lamps by their sides will go out.
New English Translation
The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.
Webster's Bible Translation
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
World English Bible
The light shall be dark in his tent, His lamp above him shall be put out.
Amplified Bible
"The light will be dark in his tent, And his lamp beside him will be put out.
English Standard Version
The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Liyt schal wexe derke in his tabernacle; and the lanterne, which is on hym, schal be quenchid.
Berean Standard Bible
The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
Contemporary English Version
leaving their tents dark.
American Standard Version
The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.
Bible in Basic English
The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.
Complete Jewish Bible
the light in his tent is darkened, the lamp over him will be snuffed out.
Darby Translation
The light shall become dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.
Easy-to-Read Version
The light in their houses will become dark. The lamps next to them will go out.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.
King James Version (1611)
The light shalbe darke in his tabernacle, and his candle shalbe put out with him.
New Life Bible
The light in his tent is made dark, and his lamp goes out above him.
New Revised Standard
The light is dark in their tent, and the lamp above them is put out.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The light shalbe darke in his dwelling, and his candle shalbe put out with him.
George Lamsa Translation
The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp above him shall be extinguished.
Good News Translation
The lamp in their tents will be darkened.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The light, hath darkened in his tent, Yea, his lamp above him, goeth out;
Douay-Rheims Bible
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him, shall be put out.
Revised Standard Version
The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The light shall be darke in his dwelling, and his candle shall be put out with him.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
His light shall be darkness in his habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.
Christian Standard Bible®
The light in his tent grows dark,and the lamp beside him is put out.
Hebrew Names Version
The light shall be dark in his tent, His lamp above him shall be put out.
Lexham English Bible
The light becomes dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.
Literal Translation
The light shall be dark in his tent; and his lamp shall be put out above him;
Young's Literal Translation
The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The light shalbe darcke in his dwellinge, & his candle shalbe put out with him.
New American Standard Bible
"The light in his tent is darkened, And his lamp goes out above him.
New King James Version
The light is dark in his tent, And his lamp beside him is put out.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The light in his tent is darkened, And his lamp goes out above him.
Legacy Standard Bible
The light in his tent is darkened,And his lamp goes out above him.

Contextual Overview

5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. 6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. 7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. 8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. 9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him. 10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

candle: or, lamp, Job 21:17, Psalms 18:28, Revelation 18:23

Reciprocal: Job 5:24 - thou shalt know Job 15:23 - the day Job 15:30 - depart Job 20:5 - the triumphing Job 20:26 - darkness Job 22:11 - darkness Job 23:17 - the darkness from Job 29:3 - candle Job 30:26 - light Proverbs 4:19 - General Proverbs 13:9 - lamp Proverbs 20:20 - his Proverbs 24:20 - candle Ezekiel 32:7 - put thee out

Cross-References

Isaiah 32:8
But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
Matthew 13:33
Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
Acts 16:15
And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.
Romans 12:13
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
Galatians 5:13
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Hebrews 13:2
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
1 Peter 4:9
Use hospitality one to another without grudging.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The light shall the dark in his tabernacle,.... Not the light of the eye, in the tabernacle of his body, rather the light of nature and reason in him; and when that "light [that is] in [a man becomes] darkness", as our Lord says, "how great [is] that darkness!" Matthew 6:23; but best of all it designs the light of prosperity in his house and family, which should be quite obscured:

and his candle shall be put out with him; which sometimes signifies the spirit of man, his rational soul, called "the candle of the Lord",

Proverbs 20:27; which, though it dies not when man dies, yet its light is extinct with respect to the things of this life, and all its thoughts and reasonings are no more about civil matters, and the affairs of this world; in that sense this light is put out, and those thoughts perish with him, Psalms 146:4; but more frequently it is used for outward prosperity, which if it continues with a man as long as he lives, as it often does, yet, when he dies, it ceases and is no more; it does not descend with him into the grave, and he cannot carry it into another world, but it is put out in "obscure darkness"; see Job 21:17.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And his candle - Margin, lamp. The reference is to a lamp that was suspended from the ceiling. The Arabians are fond of this image. Thus, they say, “Bad fortune has extinguished my lamp.” Of a man whose hopes are remarkably blasted, they say, “He is like a lamp which is immediately extinguished if you let it sink in the oil.” See Schultens. The putting out of a lamp is to the Orientals an image of utter desolation. It is the universal custom to have a light burning in their houses at night. “The houses of Egypt, in modern times, are never without lights; they burn lamps all the night long, and in every occupied apartment. So requisite to the comfort of a family is this custom reckoned, and so imperious is the power which it exercises, that the poorest people. would rather retrench part of their food than neglect it.” Paxton. It is not improbable that this custom prevailed in former times in Arabia, as it does now in Egypt; and this consideration will give increased beauty and force to this passage.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 18:6. The light shall be dark in his tabernacle — His property shall be destroyed, his house pillaged, and himself and his family come to an untimely end.

His candle shall be put out — He shall have no posterity.


 
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