Job 18:6

18:6 The light in his tent grows dark;

his lamp above him is extinguished.

Job 38:2

38:2 “Who is this who darkens counsel

with words without knowledge?


tn The LXX interprets a little more precisely: “his lamp shall be put out with him.”

tn The demonstrative pronoun is used here to emphasize the interrogative pronoun (see GKC 442 §136.c).

sn The referent of “counsel” here is not the debate between Job and the friends, but the purposes of God (see Ps 33:10; Prov 19:21; Isa 19:17). Dhorme translates it “Providence.”