Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came.
World English Bible Classic
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
25Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?
27My heart is troubled, and doesn’t rest. Days of affliction have come on me.
Cross References
Job 3:25For the thing which I fear comes on me, that which I am afraid of comes to me.
Job 18:18He will 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 justice is far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
Jeremiah 14:19Have you utterly rejected Judah? Has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
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 →