Job 30:26

The Scriptures 1998

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

Cross References

Jeremiah 8:15

We looked for peace, but there was no good; and for a time of healing, but see – fear!

Jeremiah 14:19

Have You completely rejected Yehuḏ

Micah 1:12

Though the inhabitants of Maroth waited for good, yet evil came down from יהוה  to the gate of Yerushalayim.

Isaiah 50:10

Who among you is fearing יהוה, obeying the voice of His Servant, that has walked in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the Name of יהוה  and lean upon his Elohim!

Psalm 97:11

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

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain without end and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Are You to me like a failing stream, as waters not steadfast?

Job 29:18

Then I thought I would die in my nest, and increase my days as the sand,

Job 23:17

because I was not cut off before darkness, and from my face He has covered the thick darkness.

Job 19:8

He has fenced up my way, and I pass not over. And He has placed darkness in my paths.

Job 18:18

They thrust him from light into darkness, and chase him out of the world.

Job 18:6

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

Lamentations 3:2

He has led me and made me walk In darkness and not light.

Isaiah 59:9

Therefore right-ruling has been far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We look for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in thick darkness!