Job 18:5-6

Context

18:5 “Yes,¹ the lamp² of the wicked is extinguished;

his flame of fire³ does not shine.

18:6 The light in his tent grows dark;

his lamp above him is extinguished.⁴

[18:5] ¹tn Hebrew גַּם (gam, “also; moreover”), in view of what has just been said.

[18:5] ²sn The lamp or the light can have a number of uses in the Bible. Here it is probably an implied metaphor for prosperity and happiness, for the good life itself.

[18:5] ³tn The expression is literally “the flame of his fire,” but the pronominal suffix qualifies the entire bound construction. The two words together intensify the idea of the flame.

[18:6] ⁴tn The LXX interprets a little more precisely: “his lamp shall be put out with him.”