Job 29:3

29:3 when ¹  he caused ²  his lamp ³ 

to shine upon my head,

and by his light

I walked ⁴  through darkness; ⁵ 

Job 31:26

31:26 if I looked at the sun ⁶  when it was shining,

and the moon advancing as a precious thing,

Job 41:18

41:18 Its snorting throws out flashes of light;

its eyes are like the red glow ⁷  of dawn.

[29:3]  ¹ tn This clause is in apposition to the preceding (see GKC 426 §131.o). It offers a clarification.

[29:3]  ² tn The form בְּהִלּוֹ (bÿhillo) is unusual; it should be parsed as a Hiphil infinitive construct with the elision of the ה (he). The proper spelling would have been with a ַ (patakh) under the preposition, reflecting הַהִלּוֹ (hahillo). If it were Qal, it would just mean “when his light shone.”

[29:3]  ³ sn Lamp and light are symbols of God’s blessings of life and all the prosperous and good things it includes.

[29:3]  ⁴ tn Here too the imperfect verb is customary – it describes action that was continuous, but in a past time.

[29:3]  ⁵ tn The accusative (“darkness”) is here an adverbial accusative of place, namely, “in the darkness,” or because he was successfully led by God’s light, “through the darkness” (see GKC 374 §118.h).

[31:26]  ⁶ tn Heb “light”; but parallel to the moon it is the sun. This section speaks of false worship of the sun and the moon.

[41:18]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the eyelids,” but it represents the early beams of the dawn as the cover of night lifts.