Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
King James Version
In Context
25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
27My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
Cross References
Job 3:25For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
Job 18:18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Job 23:17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.
Psalms 97:11Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
Isaiah 59:9Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
Jeremiah 14:19Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, 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 →