Job 30:26
But I, when I waited for good things, behold, days of evils came the more upon me.
Brenton Septuagint
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
25Yet I wept over every helpless man; I groaned when I saw a man in distress.
27My belly boiled, and would not cease: the days of poverty prevented me.
Cross References
Job 3:25For the terror of which I meditated has come upon me, and that which I had feared has befallen me.
Job 18:18Let one drive him from light into darkness.
Job 23:17For I knew not that darkness would come upon me, and thick darkness has covered me before my face.
Isaiah 59:9Therefore has judgment departed from them, and righteousness shall not overtake them: while they waited for light, darkness came upon them; while they waited for brightness, they walked in perplexity.
Jeremiah 14:19Hast thou utterly rejected Juda? and has thy soul departed from Sion? wherefore hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we waited for peace, but there was no prosperity; for a 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 →