Job 30:26
That I hoped for good, but there came evil; and I waited for light, and there came darkness!
Leeser Tanakh
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 I not weep for him that was hard pressed by misfortune? was not my soul grieved for the needy?
27My bowels heave, and rest not: the days of affliction have overcome me.
Cross References
Job 3:25Because what I greatly dreaded is come upon me, and what I apprehended is come unto me.
Job 18:18Men will thrust him out from light into darkness, and out of the world will they drive him.
Job 23:17Because I was not destroyed before this darkness, and because he hath not hidden from my face [this] gloom.
Psalms 97:11Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart.
Isaiah 59:9Therefore is justice far from us, nor will happiness overtake us: we ever hope for light, but behold there is darkness; for brightness, but in obscurity must we walk.
Jeremiah 14:19Hast thou entirely rejected Judah? or hath thy soul loathing on Zion? why hast thou smitten us, so that there is no healing for us? we hoped for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold, there is 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 →