Job 30:26

WEB

²⁶When I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came.

KJV

²⁶When I looked^[+] for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

BSB

²⁶But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.

FBV

²⁶But when I looked for good, only evil came, and when I waited for the light, all that came was darkness.

Extra References

Jeremiah 8:15

¹⁵We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!

Job 3:25-26

²⁵For the thing which I fear comes on me, that which I am afraid of comes to me. ²⁶I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; but trouble comes.”

¹⁹Have 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!

Micah 1:12

¹²For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.

Job 23:17

¹⁷Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

Job 19:8

⁸He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

Job 18:6

⁶The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.

Isaiah 50:10

¹⁰Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in the LORD’s name, and rely on his God.

Psalms 97:11

¹¹Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

Job 29:18

¹⁸Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.