3When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
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For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Losers may have leave to speak, and there is nothing they speak of more feelingly than of the comforts they are stripped of. Their former prosperity is one of the most pleasing subjects of their thoughts and talk. It was so to Job, who begins here with a wish (Job 29:2): O that I were as in months past ! so he brings in this account of his prosperity. His wish is, 1. “O that I were in as good a st…
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