Job 29:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 18:28 : 28 You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.
  • Job 18:6 : 6 The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.
  • John 8:12 : 12 Then again Jesus said to them, I am the light of the world; he who comes with me will not be walking in the dark but will have the light of life.
  • John 12:46 : 46 I have come as a light into the world, so that no one who has faith in me will go on living in the dark.
  • Eph 5:8 : 8 For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.
  • Job 11:17 : 17 And your life will be brighter than day; though it is dark, it will become like the morning.
  • Isa 2:4 : 4 And he will be the judge between the nations, and the peoples will be ruled by his decisions: and their swords will be turned into plough-blades, and their spears into vine-knives: no longer will the nations be turning their swords against one another, and the knowledge of war will be gone for ever.
  • Job 22:28 : 28 Your purposes will come about, and light will be shining on your ways.
  • Ps 84:11 : 11 The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.
  • Prov 13:9 : 9 There is a glad dawn for the upright man, but the light of the sinner will be put out.
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night.
  • Prov 24:20 : 20 For there will be no future for the evil man; the light of sinners will be put out.
  • Ps 4:6 : 6 There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.
  • Job 21:17 : 17 How frequently is the light of the evil-doers put out, or does trouble come on them? how frequently does his wrath take them with cords?
  • Ps 23:4 : 4 Yes, though I go through the valley of deep shade, I will have no fear of evil; for you are with me, your rod and your support are my comfort.
  • Ps 27:1 : 1 <Of David.> The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 29:4-7
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    4As I was in my flowering years, when my tent was covered by the hand of God;

    5While the Ruler of all was still with me, and my children were round me;

    6When my steps were washed with milk, and rivers of oil were flowing out of the rock for me.

    7When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,

  • Ps 18:28
    80%

    28You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.

  • Lam 3:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    1I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath.

    2By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.

  • 2 Sam 22:29
    79%

    29For you are my light, O Lord; and the Lord will make the dark bright for me.

  • Job 31:26
    79%

    26If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way,

  • Job 29:2
    79%

    2If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me!

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    79%

    11If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

    12Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.

  • Job 23:17
    78%

    17For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

  • Job 18:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    5For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.

    6The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

  • Job 19:8-9
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    76%

    8My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

    9He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.

  • Job 30:26
    75%

    26For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.

  • Job 38:19
    75%

    19Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

  • Lam 3:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

    7He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.

  • Job 3:23
    74%

    23To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?

  • Mic 7:8
    72%

    8Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me.

  • Job 10:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

    22A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

  • Job 17:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.

    13If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

  • Ps 142:3
    72%

    3When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.

  • Job 3:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;

    5Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

  • Job 28:3
    72%

    3Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.

  • Job 3:9
    72%

    9Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.

  • Job 3:16
    72%

    16Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

  • Lam 3:9
    72%

    9He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.

  • Job 17:7
    72%

    7My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

  • Job 11:17
    72%

    17And your life will be brighter than day; though it is dark, it will become like the morning.

  • Ps 143:3
    71%

    3The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

  • Job 25:3
    71%

    3Is it possible for his armies to be numbered? and on whom is not his light shining?

  • 2 Sam 22:13
    71%

    13Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and coals of fire.

  • Eccl 12:2
    71%

    2While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;

  • Jer 13:16
    71%

    16Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

  • Dan 2:22
    71%

    22He is the unveiler of deep and secret things: he has knowledge of what is in the dark, and the light has its living-place with him.

  • Prov 13:9
    71%

    9There is a glad dawn for the upright man, but the light of the sinner will be put out.

  • Job 29:11
    71%

    11For when it came to their ears, men said that I was truly happy; and when their eyes saw, they gave witness to me;

  • Job 7:3
    71%

    3So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.

  • Job 37:19
    71%

    19Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.

  • Job 12:22
    71%

    22Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;

  • Ps 43:3
    71%

    3O send out your light and your true word; let them be my guide: let them take me to your holy hill, and to your tents.

  • Eccl 2:13
    71%

    13Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways--as the light is better than the dark.