Job 30:26 - Tree of Life Version

Yet, when I hoped for good, evil came; when I waited for light, then darkness came.

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King 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.

Job 30:26 Tagairtí Cros

Job 18:18

He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

Job 18:6

The light in his tent grows dark; the lamp above him goes out.

Job 19:8

He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has shrouded my path in darkness.

Job 23:17

Yet I am not silenced because of the darkness, nor by the thick darkness that covers my face.”

Job 29:18

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

Psalm 97:11

Light is sown for the righteous and gladness for the upright in heart.

Isaiah 50:10

Who among you fears Adonai? Who hears the voice of His servant? Who walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the Name of Adonai and lean on his God.

Isaiah 59:9

That is why justice is far from us and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but behold darkness, for brightness, but walk in gloom.

Jeremiah 14:19

Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for shalom, but nothing good came, and for a time of healing, but suddenly, terror!

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain unending and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will You be to me like a mirage of water that is undependable?

Jeremiah 8:15

We hoped for shalom, but it is no good, for a time of healing —and suddenly, terror!”

Lamentations 3:2

He has driven me and made me walk in darkness and not light.

Micah 1:12

For she who dwells in Maroth has languished for something good. For calamity has come down from Adonai to Jerusalem’s gate.