Job 30:26
For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.
Bible in Basic English
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
25Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need?
27My feelings are strongly moved, and give me no rest; days of trouble have overtaken me.
Cross References
Job 3:25For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.
Job 18:18He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.
Job 23:17For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.
Psalms 97:11Light is shining on the lovers of righteousness, and for the upright in heart there is joy.
Isaiah 59:9For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.
Jeremiah 14:19Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.
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 →