Job 30:26

Revised Version 1885

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; and for a time of healing, and behold dismay!

Jeremiah 14:19

Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast 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 waiteth anxiously for good: because evil is come down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 50:10

Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant? he that walketh in darkness, and hath no light, let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.

Psalm 97:11

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

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou indeed be unto 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, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

Job 19:8

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, And hath 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 hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness and not in light.

Isaiah 59:9

Therefore is judgement far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but behold darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.