Job 18:6

6 Het licht zal verduisteren in zijn tent, en zijn lamp zal over hem uitgeblust worden.

Job 18:6 Meaning and Commentary

Job 18:6

The light shall the dark in his tabernacle
Not the light of the eye, in the tabernacle of his body, rather the light of nature and reason in him; and when that "light [that is] in [a man becomes] darkness", as our Lord says, "how great [is] that darkness!" ( Matthew 6:23 ) ; but best of all it designs the light of prosperity in his house and family, which should be quite obscured:

and his candle shall be put out with him;
which sometimes signifies the spirit of man, his rational soul, called "the candle of the Lord", ( Proverbs 20:27 ) ; which, though it dies not when man dies, yet its light is extinct with respect to the things of this life, and all its thoughts and reasonings are no more about civil matters, and the affairs of this world; in that sense this light is put out, and those thoughts perish with him, ( Psalms 146:4 ) ; but more frequently it is used for outward prosperity, which if it continues with a man as long as he lives, as it often does, yet, when he dies, it ceases and is no more; it does not descend with him into the grave, and he cannot carry it into another world, but it is put out in "obscure darkness"; see ( Job 21:17 ) ( Proverbs 20:20 ) .

Job 18:6 In-Context

4 O gij, die zijn ziel verscheurt door zijn toorn! Zal om uwentwil de aarde verlaten worden, en zal een rots versteld worden uit haar plaats?

5 Ja, het licht der goddelozen zal uitgeblust worden, en de vonk zijns vuurs zal niet glinsteren.

6 Het licht zal verduisteren in zijn tent, en zijn lamp zal over hem uitgeblust worden.

7 De treden zijner macht zullen benauwd worden, en zijn raad zal hem nederwerpen.

8 Want met zijn voeten zal hij in het net geworpen worden, en zal in het wargaren wandelen.