Job 18:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

Job 18:6 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Revelation 18:23
And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
Job 21:17
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
Psalms 18:28
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

Topics

Candle Lamp Wicked (people)

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-10)

The rest of Bildad’s discourse is entirely taken up in an elegant description of the miserable condition of a wicked man, in which there is a great deal of certain truth, and which will be of excellent use if duly considered—that a sinful condition is a sad condition, and that iniquity will be men’s ruin if they do not repent of it. But it is not true that all wicked people are visibly and openly…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. candle--the lamp which in the East is usually fastened to the ceiling. Oil abounds in those regions, and the lamp was kept burning all night, as now in Egypt, where the poorest would rather dispense with food than the night lamp (Psa 18:28). To put out the lamp was an image of utter desolation.