Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then evil came;When I waited for light, there came darkness.
New Heart English 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 I not 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 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 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 is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
Jeremiah 14:19"Have 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 →