Job 30:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But when I looked for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: And when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But when I looked for good, then evil came to me; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

American Standard Version (1901)

When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Common English Bible

for I awaited good, but evil came; I expected light, but gloom arrived.

Catholic Public Domain Version

I expected good things, but evil things have come to me. I stood ready for light, yet darkness burst forth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out.

Job 30:26 Cross References

Job 18:18

They are thrust from light into darkness and driven out of the world.

Job 18:6

The light is dark in their tent, and the lamp above them is put out.

Job 19:8

He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.

Job 23:17

If only I could vanish in darkness, and thick darkness would cover my face!

Job 29:18

Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days like the phoenix;

Psalm 97:11

Light dawns for the righteous and joy for the upright in heart.

Isaiah 50:10

Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the voice of his servant, who walks in darkness and has no light, yet trusts in the name of the Lord and relies upon his God?

Isaiah 59:9

Therefore justice is far from us, and deliverance does not reach us; we wait for light, but there is only darkness; and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

Jeremiah 14:19

Have you completely rejected Judah? Does your heart loathe Zion? Why have you struck us down so that there is no healing for us? We look for peace but find no good, for a time of healing, but there is terror instead.

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Truly, you are to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail.

Jeremiah 8:15

We look for peace but find no good, for a time of healing, but there is terror instead.

Lamentations 3:2

he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light;

Micah 1:12

For the inhabitants of Maroth wait anxiously for good, yet disaster has come down from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.