Job 30:26
When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.
Young's Literal Translation
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 whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.
27My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction.
Cross References
Job 3:25For a fear I feared and it meeteth me, And what I was afraid of doth come to me.
Job 18:18They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.
Job 23:17For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.
Psalms 97:11Light [is] sown for the righteous, And for the upright of heart — joy.
Isaiah 59:9Therefore hath judgment been far from us, And righteousness reacheth us not, We wait for light, and lo, darkness, For brightness — in thick darkness we go,
Jeremiah 14:19Hast Thou utterly rejected Judah? Zion hath Thy soul loathed? Wherefore hast Thou smitten us, And there is no healing to us? Looking for peace, and there is no good, And for a time of healing, and 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 →