Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness.
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Referenced Verses
- Jer 8:15 : 15 We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
- Jer 14:19 : 19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
- Job 3:25-26 : 25 For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me. 26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble cometh.
- Job 18:6 : 6 The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.
- Job 18:18 : 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.
- Job 19:8 : 8 He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.
- Job 23:17 : 17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
- Job 29:18 : 18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:
- Ps 97:11 : 11 Light is sown for the righteous, And gladness for the upright in heart.
- Isa 50:10 : 10 Who is among you that feareth Jehovah, that obeyeth the voice of his servant? he that walketh in darkness, and hath no light, let him trust in the name of Jehovah, and rely upon his God.
- Jer 15:18 : 18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?
- Mic 1:12 : 12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good, because evil is come down from Jehovah unto the gate of Jerusalem.
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27 My heart is troubled, and resteth not; Days of affliction are come upon me.
28 I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
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25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
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3 When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;
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1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
2 He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
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12 They change the night into day: The light, [say they], is near unto the darkness.
13 If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
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15 We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
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12 They reward me evil for good, [To] the bereaving of my soul.
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22 and they shall look unto the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.
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29 If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;
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11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, And the light about me shall be night;
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20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;
- Job 10:21-222 verses72%
21 Before I go whence I shall not return, [Even] to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
22 The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.
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26 If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness,
- Job 19:7-82 verses71%
7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.
8 He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.
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17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
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9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:
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12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good, because evil is come down from Jehovah unto the gate of Jerusalem.
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8 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, Jehovah will be a light unto me.
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25 For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.
26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble cometh.
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1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon men:
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20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.
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14 They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
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16 And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
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13 Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
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20 They also that render evil for good Are adversaries unto me, because I follow the thing that is good.
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20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.
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20 Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
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4 Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.
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6 He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
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27 He that diligently seeketh good seeketh favor; But he that searcheth after evil, it shall come unto him.
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9 Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
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13 They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, [Even] men that have no helper.
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4 Look on [my] right hand, and see; For there is no man that knoweth me: Refuge hath failed me; No man careth for my soul.
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6 The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.
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16 And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.
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17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he is sore vexed, and hath sickness and wrath.
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23 He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
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30 And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold, darkness [and] distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof.
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16 My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
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15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; They did tear me, and ceased not:
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19 Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
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20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
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27 When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you.
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7 When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,