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Job 18:6 — King James Version← Study notes

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


Job 18:6Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 18:66 words
HebrewMeaning
א֭וֹרʾwōr
the lightnounH216
clear · day · light · morning ···
חָשַׁ֣ךְḥāšakə
it grows darkverbH2821
be dark · darken · cause darkness · be dim ···
בְּ/אָהֳל֑/וֹbəʾāhŏlwō
in tent hispronH168
home · tabernacle · tent
וְ֝/נֵר֗/וֹwənērwō
and lamp hisconjH5216
lamp · light
עָלָ֥י/וʿālāyw
above himpronH5921
according to · after · against · among ···
יִדְעָֽךְyidəʿākə
it is extinguishedverbH1846
consumed · put out · quenched
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Job 18:6

In a former part of this work we have handled the point, that Almighty God, in order to amend the hearts of those under the law, brought forward the life of blessed Job for a testimony, who knew not the law and yet kept it, who observed the precepts of life, which he had not received in writing. This man’s conduct is first extolled by God’s bearing witness to it, and is afterwards suffered to be put to the proof by the devil’s plotting against it, that he might prove by the…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 14 §1
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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