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“Yes,[a] the lamp[b] of the wicked is extinguished;

his flame of fire[c] does not shine.
The light in his tent grows dark;
his lamp above him is extinguished.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 18:5 tn Hebrew גַּם (gam, “also; moreover”), in view of what has just been said.
  2. Job 18:5 sn 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.
  3. Job 18:5 tn 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.
  4. Job 18:6 tn The LXX interprets a little more precisely: “his lamp shall be put out with him.”sn This thesis of Bildad will be questioned by Job in 21:17—how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out?