Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then evil came. And when I waited for light, there came darkness.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
In Context
25Did I not weep for him who was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
27My heart is troubled, and does not rest. Days of affliction have come upon me.
Cross References
Job 3:25For the thing which I fear comes upon me, and that which I am afraid of comes to me.
Job 18:18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Job 23:17because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
Psalms 97:11Light is sown for the righteous man, and gladness for the upright in heart.
Isaiah 59:9Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us. We look for light, but, behold, darkness, for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
Jeremiah 14:19Have thou utterly rejected Judah? Has thy soul loathed Zion? Why have thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came, and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
Matthew Henry on Job 30:16-31
Job Complains of His Affliction. ( b. c. 1520.) 15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. 16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. 17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. 18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. 19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. 20 I cry unto thee,… Read the whole commentary →