Job 30:26

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Jeremiah 8:15

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

Jeremiah 14:19

Have thou utterly rejected Judah? Has thy soul loathed Zion? Why have 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!

Micah 1:12

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

Isaiah 50:10

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

Psalm 97:11

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

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will thou indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?

Job 29:18

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

Job 23:17

because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

Job 19:8

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

Job 18:18

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Job 18:6

The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp above him shall be put out.

Lamentations 3:2

He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

Isaiah 59:9

Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us. We look for light, but, behold, darkness, for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.