Your life will be brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.
Parallel translations
- WEB Life shall be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it shall be as the morning.
- KJV And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday: thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
- NKJV And your life would be brighter than noonday. Though you were dark, you would be like the morning.
- NASB “Your life would be brighter than noonday; Darkness would be like the morning.
- NLT Your life will be brighter than the noonday. Even darkness will be as bright as morning.
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Quick answer
Zophar foresees Job's life shining brighter than noon, with darkness becoming like morning. He promises radiant restoration.
Overview
Zophar assures Job that repentance would turn his gloom into light surpassing midday, so that even darkness would seem like dawn. The picture of light overcoming darkness is beautiful and biblically resonant. Its fullest realization is in Christ, the light of the world, in whom even our darkest seasons give way to the brightness of His salvation (John 8:12; Proverbs 4:18).
Cross-references & the web
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- Isa 58:8–10Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will come quickly. Your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.
- Ps 37:6He will bring forth your righteousness like the dawn, your justice like the noonday sun.
- Prov 4:18The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
- Zech 14:6–7On that day there will be no light, no cold or frost.
- Mic 7:8–9Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.
- Hos 6:3So let us know—let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.
- Ps 112:4Light dawns in the darkness for the upright—for the gracious, compassionate, and righteous.
- 1 Chr 29:10Then David blessed the LORD in the sight of all the assembly and said: “May You be blessed, O LORD, God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.
- Job 42:11–17All his brothers and sisters and prior acquaintances came and dined with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. And each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.
- Mal 4:2“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.
- Ps 92:14In old age they will still bear fruit; healthy and green they will remain,
- Luke 2:26–32The Holy Spirit had revealed to him that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.
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