Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then evil came; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Revised Version 1895
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 weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the needy?
27My bowels boil, and rest not; days of affliction are come upon me.
Cross References
Job 3:25For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, and that which I am afraid of cometh 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 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 judgment far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but behold darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
Jeremiah 14:19Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten 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 →