Job 30:26

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

But when I looked 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

Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? Does thy soul loathe Zion? Why hast thou smitten us 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 evil 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, who walks in darkness and has no light, yet trusts in the name of the Lord and relies upon his God?

Psalm 97:11

Light dawns 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? Wilt thou 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

for I am hemmed in by darkness, and 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 look for light, and behold, darkness, and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.