Job 30:26
Surely, for good, I looked, but there came in evil, And I waited for light, but there came in darkness;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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
25Verily I wept, for him whose lot was hard, Grieved was my soul, for the needy.
27I boiled within me, and rested not, There confronted me—days of affliction;
Cross References
Job 3:25For, a dread, I dreaded, and it hath come upon me, and, that from which I shrank, hath overtaken me.
Job 18:18Let them thrust him out of light into darkness, Yea, out of the world, let them chase him;
Job 23:17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor, before my face, did the gloom form a shroud.
Psalms 97:11Light, is sown for the righteous one, And, for the upright in heart, rejoicing:
Isaiah 59:9For this cause, hath justice removed far from us, And righteousness overtaketh us not,—We wait for light, But lo! darkness, For brightness, In thick darkness, we walk:
Jeremiah 14:19Hast thou, utterly rejected, Judah? Zion itself, hath thy soul loathed? Why, hast thou smitten us so that there is for us no healing? A waiting For prosperity, but no welfare, and For a time of healing, but lo! 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 →