Job 30:26
Yet, when I looked for good, there came evil; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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
25If I have not wept for him that was in trouble, and if my soul grieved not for the needy.
27Mine inwards boil, and rest not; days of affliction are come upon me.
Cross References
Job 3:25For the thing which I did fear is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of hath overtaken me.
Job 18:18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Job 23:17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did He cover the thick darkness from my face.
Psalms 97:11Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
Isaiah 59:9Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us; we look for light, but behold darkness, for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
Jeremiah 14:19Hast Thou utterly rejected Judah? Hath Thy soul loathed Zion? Why hast Thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for 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 →