Job 30:26
Yet when I looked for good, euill came vnto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkenesse.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 weepe with him that was in trouble? was not my soule in heauinesse for the poore?
27My bowels did boyle without rest: for the dayes of affliction are come vpon me.
Cross References
Job 3:25For the thing I feared, is come vpon me, and the thing that I was afraid of, is come vnto me.
Job 18:18They shall driue him out of the light vnto darkenesse, and chase him out of the world.
Job 23:17For I am not cut off in darknesse, but he hath hid the darkenesse from my face.
Psalms 97:11Light is sowen for the righteous, and ioy for the vpright in heart.
Isaiah 59:9Therefore is iudgement farre from vs, neither doeth iustice come neere vnto vs: we waite for light, but loe, it is darkenesse: for brightnesse, but we walke in darkenesse.
Jeremiah 14:19Hast thou vtterly reiected Iudah, or hath thy soule abhorred Zion? why hast thou smitten vs, that we cannot be healed? Wee looked for peace, and there is no good, and for the time of health, and behold trouble.
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 →