Job 30:26 - Revised Standard Version But when I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, darkness came. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: And when I waited for light, there came darkness. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But when I looked for good, then evil came to me; and when I waited for light, there came darkness. American Standard Version (1901) When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness. Common English Bible for I awaited good, but evil came; I expected light, but gloom arrived. Catholic Public Domain Version I expected good things, but evil things have come to me. I stood ready for light, yet darkness burst forth. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out. |
He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand,
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?
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.
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.
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?
We looked for peace, but no good came, for a time of healing, but behold, terror.
For the inhabitants of Maroth wait anxiously for good, because evil has come down from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.