Job 30:26
But when I looked for good, then evil came; When I looked for light, then came darkness.
Noyes 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
25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?
27My bowels boil, and have no rest; Days of anguish have come upon me.
Cross References
Job 3:25For that which I dread overtaketh me; That at which I shudder cometh upon me.
Job 18:18He shall be thrust from light into darkness, And driven out of the world.
Job 23:17Because I was not taken away before darkness came, And he hath not hidden darkness from mine eyes.
Psalms 97:11Light is sown for the righteous, And joy for the upright in heart.
Isaiah 59:9Therefore is judgment far from us, And deliverance doth not overtake us. We look for light, and behold obscurity; For brightness, and we walk in darkness.
Jeremiah 14:19Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? Doth thy soul abhor Zion? Why hast thou smitten us, so that there is no healing for us! We look for peace, and there is no good, 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 →