Job 30:26
For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness.
Darby Translation
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 not I weep for him whose days were hard? was not my soul grieved for the needy?
27My bowels well up, and rest not; days of affliction have confronted me.
Cross References
Job 3:25For I feared a fear, and it hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.
Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Job 23:17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he hidden the gloom from me.
Psalms 97:11Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart.
Isaiah 59:9Therefore is justice far from us, and righteousness overtaketh us not: we wait for light, and behold darkness; for brightness, [but] we walk in obscurity.
Jeremiah 14:19Hast thou then utterly rejected Judah? Doth thy soul loathe Zion? Why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? Peace is looked for, and there is no good, and a time of healing, and behold terror!
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 →