JOB 29:3 Parallel Verse View

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BrLXX Ὡς ὅτε ηὔγει ὁ λύχνος αὐτοῦ ὑπὲρ κεφαλῆς μου, ὅτε τῷ φωτὶ αὐτοῦ ἐπορευόμην ἐν σκότει·
(Hōs hote aʸugei ho luⱪnos autou huper kefalaʸs mou, hote tōi fōti autou eporeuomaʸn en skotei; )

BrTr As when his lamp shone over my head; when by his light I walked through darkness.

ULT when his lamp shone over my head,
⇔ when I walked in darkness by his light,

UST During that time, it was if God was shining a light on me
⇔ so that I could see where I was going even in the darkness.

BSB when His lamp shone above my head,
⇔ and by His light I walked through the darkness,

OEB When His lamp shone over my head,
⇔ And I walked by His light through the darkness;

WEBBE when his lamp shone on my head,
⇔ and by his light I walked through darkness,

WMBB (Same as above)

NET when he caused his lamp
⇔ to shine upon my head,
⇔ and by his light
⇔ I walked through darkness;

LSV In His causing His lamp to shine on my head,
By His light I walk [through] darkness.

FBV His light shone above me and lit my way through the darkness.

T4T During those years, it was as though God’s lamp [MET] shone on me
⇔ and gave me light while I walked in the darkness.

LEB • was over my head— by his light I walked through darkness—

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

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JPS When His lamp shined above my head, and by His light I walked through darkness;

ASV When his lamp shined upon my head,
⇔ And by his light I walked through darkness;

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

YLT In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk [through] darkness.

Drby When his lamp shone over my head, [and] by his light I walked through darkness;

RV When his lamp shined upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

Wbstr When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

KJB-1769 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;[fn]

29.3 candle: or, lamp

KJB-1611 [fn]When his candle shined vpon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkenesse:
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

29:3 Or.lampe

Bshps When his light shined vpon my head, when I went after the same light and shining, euen through the darknesse:
(When his light shined upon my head, when I went after the same light and shining, even through the darkness:)

Gnva When his light shined vpon mine head: and when by his light I walked thorowe the darkenesse,
(When his light shined upon mine head: and when by his light I walked thorowe the darkness, )

Cvdl when his light shyned vpon my heade: whe I wente after the same light & shyne eue thorow the darcknesse.
(when his light shyned upon my heade: when I went after the same light and shyne eue through the darknessse.)

Wycl Whanne his lanterne schynede on myn heed, and Y yede in derknessis at his liyt.
(When his lanterne schynede on mine heed, and I went in darkness at his light.)

Luth da seine Leuchte über meinem Haupte schien, und ich bei seinem Licht in der Finsternis ging;
(da his Leuchte above my heade schien, and I at his light in the/of_the darkness ging;)

ClVg Quando splendebat lucerna ejus super caput meum, et ad lumen ejus ambulabam in tenebris:[fn]
(When splendebat lucerna his over caput mine, and to lumen his ambulabam in darkness: )

29.3 Quando splendebat lucerna, etc. Lucerna lumen sacræ Scripturæ vocatur. Nunc ergo lucerna super caput Ecclesiæ splendet, quia sacra eloquia tenebras nostræ mentis irradiant. Et ad lumen ejus, etc. Ibid. Ecclesia, etsi alienæ cogitationis occulta non penetrat, quia quasi faciem Dei non cognoscit in nocte, ponit tamen gressus boni operis directo lumine supernæ locutionis.

29.3 When splendebat lucerna, etc. Lucerna lumen sacræ Scripturæ vocatur. Nunc therefore lucerna over caput Ecclesiæ splendet, because sacra elobecause tenebras nostræ mentis irradiant. And to lumen his, etc. Ibid. Ecclesia, etsi alienæ cogitationis occulta not/no penetrat, because as_if face of_God not/no cognoscit in nocte, puts tamen gressus boni operis directo lumine supernæ locutionis.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

בְּ⁠הִלּ֣⁠וֹ נֵ֭ר⁠וֹ עֲלֵ֣י רֹאשִׁ֑⁠י לְ֝⁠אוֹר⁠וֹ אֵ֣לֶךְ חֹֽשֶׁךְ

in/on/at/with,shone,him lamp_of,his over my=head by,light_of,his walked darkness

Job is speaking as if God literally shone a lamp above and around him so that he could see where to walk even in the darkness. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “when God showed me clearly what to do so that I could make the right choices even in confusing situations”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche

עֲלֵ֣י רֹאשִׁ֑⁠י

over my=head

Job is using one part of himself, his head, to mean all of him when speaking as if God shone a lamp above and around him. He is probably speaking of himself in terms of his head because that would have been the part of him closest to the lamp. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “above and around me”

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