Job 30:26
I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
25I wept heretofore for him that was afflicted, and my soul had compassion on the poor.
27My inner parts have boiled without any rest, the days of affliction have prevented me.
Cross References
Job 3:25For the fear which I feared hath come upon me: and that which I was afraid of, hath befallen me.
Job 18:18He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove him out of the world.
Job 23:17For I have not perished because of the darkness that hangs over me, neither hath the mist covered my face.
Psalms 97:11Light is risen to the just, and joy to the right of heart.
Isaiah 59:9Therefore is judgment far from us, and justice shall not overtake us. We looked for light, and behold darkness: brightness, and we have walked in the dark.
Jeremiah 14:19Hast thou utterly cast away Juda, or hath thy soul abhorred Sion? why then hast thou struck us, so that there is no healing for us? we have looked for peace, and there is no 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 →