Job 30:26

Modern English Version

When I looked for good, then evil disaster came upon me; and when I waited for light, darkness came.

Cross References

Job 18:18

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

Job 18:6

The light will be dark in his tent, and his candle beside him will be put out.

Job 19:8

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

Job 23:17

because I was not cut off from the presence of darkness, nor has He covered the darkness from my face.

Job 29:18

“Then I said, ‘I will die in my nest, and I will multiply my days as the sand.

Psalm 97:11

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

Isaiah 50:10

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

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.

Jeremiah 14:19

Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You stricken us so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but there was nothing good; and for the time of healing, but behold, trouble!

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain perpetual and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Shall You be altogether to me as a deceptive stream and as waters that fail?

Jeremiah 8:15

We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, but behold, terror!

Lamentations 3:2

He has driven and brought me into darkness without any light.

Micah 1:12

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