Job 30:26
I expected good things, but evil things have come to me. I stood ready for light, yet darkness burst forth.
Catholic Public Domain 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
25Once, I wept over him who was afflicted, and my soul had compassion on the poor.
27My insides have seethed, without any rest, for the days of affliction have prevented it.
Cross References
Job 3:25for the terror that I feared has happened to me, and so has the dread befallen me.
Job 18:18He will expel him from light into darkness, and he will remove him from the world.
Job 23:17Yet I have not perished because of the threatening darkness, nor has gloom covered my face.
Isaiah 59:9Because of this, judgment is far from us, and justice will not take hold of us. We waited for light, and behold, darkness; we waited for brightness, and we walked in darkness.
Jeremiah 14:19Could you have utterly cast out Judah? Or has your soul abhorred Zion? Then why have you struck us, so much so that there is no health for us? We have waited for peace, but there is nothing good, and for the time of healing, and behold, trouble.
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 →