Job 30:26
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.”
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“But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.”
King James Version · Public Domain“When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 30:26 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 3:25For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.
- Job 18:6The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
- Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
- Job 19:8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
- Job 23:17Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.
- Job 29:18So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.
- Psalms 97:11Light shines on the righteous, gladness on the upright in heart.
- Isaiah 50:10Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of His Servant? Who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD; let him lean on his God.
- Isaiah 59:9Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
- Jeremiah 8:15We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
- Jeremiah 14:19Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.
- Jeremiah 15:18Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me— water that is not there.
- Lamentations 3:2He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
- Micah 1:12For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.
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