Job 30:26

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

Jeremiah 8:15

We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror.

Jeremiah 14:19

Have you utterly rejected Judah? Does your soul loathe Zion? Why have you struck us down so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror.

Micah 1:12

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

Isaiah 50:10

Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the voice of his servant? Let him who walks in darkness and has no light trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.

Psalm 97:11

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

Jeremiah 15:18

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

Job 29:18

Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand,

Job 23:17

yet I am not silenced because of the darkness, nor because thick darkness covers my face.

Job 19:8

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

Job 18:18

He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.

Job 18:6

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

Lamentations 3:2

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

Isaiah 59:9

Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us; we hope for light, and behold, darkness, and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.