the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
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THE MESSAGE
Job 18:6
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The light in his tent grows dark,and the lamp beside him is put out.
The light shall be dark in his tent, His lamp above him shall be put out.
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.
The light in their tents will grow dark, and the lamps by their sides will go out.
The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.
"The light will be dark in his tent, And his lamp beside him will be put out.
"The light in his tent is darkened, And his lamp goes out above him.
The light shall be dark in his tent, His lamp above him shall be put out.
The light shalbe darke in his dwelling, and his candle shalbe put out with him.
The light in his tent is darkened,And his lamp goes out above him.
The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
leaving their tents dark.
the light in his tent is darkened, the lamp over him will be snuffed out.
The light shall become dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.
The light in their houses will become dark. The lamps next to them will go out.
The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp above him shall be extinguished.
The lamp in their tents will be darkened.
The light becomes dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.
The light shall be dark in his tent; and his lamp shall be put out above him;
The light shalbe darcke in his dwellinge, & his candle shalbe put out with him.
The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.
The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.
The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.
The light shalbe darke in his tabernacle, and his candle shalbe put out with him.
The light shall be darke in his dwelling, and his candle shall be put out with him.
His light shall be darkness in his habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.
The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp above him shall be put out.
Liyt schal wexe derke in his tabernacle; and the lanterne, which is on hym, schal be quenchid.
The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
The light is dark in his tent, And his lamp beside him is put out.
The light in their tent will grow dark. The lamp hanging above them will be quenched.
The light in his tent is made dark, and his lamp goes out above him.
The light is dark in their tent, and the lamp above them is put out.
The light, hath darkened in his tent, Yea, his lamp above him, goeth out;
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him, shall be put out.
The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.
The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
"The light in his tent is darkened, And his lamp goes out above him.
Contextual Overview
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
Another story. "God's kingdom is like yeast that a woman works into the dough for dozens of loaves of barley bread—and waits while the dough rises."
After she was baptized, along with everyone in her household, she said in a surge of hospitality, "If you're confident that I'm in this with you and believe in the Master truly, come home with me and be my guests." We hesitated, but she wouldn't take no for an answer.
It is absolutely clear that God has called you to a free life. Just make sure that you don't use this freedom as an excuse to do whatever you want to do and destroy your freedom. Rather, use your freedom to serve one another in love; that's how freedom grows. For everything we know about God's Word is summed up in a single sentence: Love others as you love yourself. That's an act of true freedom. If you bite and ravage each other, watch out—in no time at all you will be annihilating each other, and where will your precious freedom be then?
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.
