Job 30:26
But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
Majority Standard Bible
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
25Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?
27I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.
Cross References
Job 3:25For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.
Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
Job 23:17Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.
Psalms 97:11Light shines on the righteous, gladness on the upright in heart.
Isaiah 59:9Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
Jeremiah 14:19Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only 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 →