Job 30:26 · KJV
“When I looked for good, then evil came {unto me}: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.”
— Job 30:26
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was {not} my soul grieved for the poor? {in trouble: Heb. hard of day?}
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
Job 30 — Context
Howbeit he will not stretch out {his} hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction. {grave: Heb. heap}
25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was {not} my soul grieved for the poor? {in trouble: Heb. hard of day?}
26When I looked for good, then evil came {unto me}: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
27My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, {and} I cried in the congregation.
Cross References
Jeremiah 8:15
We looked for peace, but no good {came; and} for a time of health, and behold trouble!
Jeremiah 14:19
Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and {there is} no healing for us? we looked for peace, and {there is} no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
Job 3:25-26
For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. {the thing...: Heb. I feared a fear, and it came upon me}
Isaiah 50:10
Who {is} among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh {in} darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
Micah 1:12
For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem. {inhabitant: Heb. inhabitress} {waited...: or, was grieved}
Psalms 97:11
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
Job 18:6
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. {candle: or, lamp}
Job 23:17
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, {neither} hath he covered the darkness from my face.