Job 29:2-5 | JFB | STEP | 2. preserved me-- from calamity.

‏ Job 29:2-5

2. preserved me--from calamity.

3. candle--when His favor shone on me (see on Job 18:6 and Psa 18:28).

darkness--By His safeguard I passed secure through dangers. Perhaps alluding to the lights carried before caravans in nightly travels through deserts [Noyes].

4. youth--literally, "autumn"; the time of the ripe fruits of my prosperity. Applied to youth, as the Orientalists began their year with autumn, the most temperate season in the East.

secret--when the intimate friendship of God rested on my tent (Pr 3:32; Psa 31:20; Ge 18:17; Joh 15:15). The Hebrew often means a divan for deliberation.