Job 30:26

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But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness came.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 8:15 : 15 We hoped for peace, but no good has come. We looked for a time of healing, but there is only terror.
  • Jer 14:19 : 19 Have You utterly rejected Judah? Does Your soul loathe Zion? Why have You struck us so that we cannot be healed? We hoped for peace, but no good has come; for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
  • Job 3:25-26 : 25 For the thing I dread comes upon me, and what I fear befalls me. 26 I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, but turmoil comes.
  • Job 18:6 : 6 The light in his tent will grow dark, and the lamp above him will be extinguished.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 He is driven from light into darkness and chased out of the world.
  • Job 19:8 : 8 He has blocked my path so I cannot pass; He has shrouded my ways with darkness.
  • Job 23:17 : 17 Yet I am not silenced by the darkness or by the deep gloom that covers my face.
  • Job 29:18 : 18 I said, 'I will die with my nest, and my days will be as numerous as the sand.'
  • Ps 97:11 : 11 Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart.
  • Isa 50:10 : 10 Who among you fears the LORD and listens to the voice of his servant? Let the one who walks in darkness, who has no light, trust in the name of the LORD and rely on his God.
  • Jer 15:18 : 18 Why has my pain become perpetual, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will You indeed be to me like a deceptive stream, waters that are unreliable?
  • Mic 1:12 : 12 The inhabitants of Maroth writhe in pain, waiting for relief, because disaster has come from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.

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  • Job 30:27-28
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    27 My insides are in turmoil and never sit still; days of suffering confront me.

    28 I walk in mourning without sunlight; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.

  • Job 30:25
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    25 Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has not my soul grieved for the needy?

  • Job 29:3
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    3 when His lamp shone upon my head, and I walked by His light through the darkness.

  • Lam 3:1-2
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    1 I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of His wrath.

    2 He has driven me away and brought me into darkness, not into light.

  • Job 17:12-13
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    73%

    12 They make night into day: ‘The light is near,’ they say, in the presence of darkness.

    13 If I hope for Sheol as my home, and I make my bed in darkness,

  • Jer 8:15
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    15 We hoped for peace, but no good has come. We looked for a time of healing, but there is only terror.

  • Ps 35:12
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    12 They repay me evil for good, leaving my soul in grief.

  • Isa 8:22
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    22 Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.

  • Job 31:29
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    29 If I have rejoiced at my enemy's misfortune or gloated when harm came to him—

  • Ps 139:11
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    11 If I say, 'Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,'

  • Job 3:20
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    20 Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter in soul?

  • Job 10:21-22
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    72%

    21 Before I go, never to return, to a land of darkness and deep shadow.

    22 A land of gloom like deep darkness, a land of shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.

  • Job 31:26
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    26 if I have looked at the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

  • Job 19:7-8
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    7 Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice.

    8 He has blocked my path so I cannot pass; He has shrouded my ways with darkness.

  • Job 23:17
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    17 Yet I am not silenced by the darkness or by the deep gloom that covers my face.

  • Job 3:9
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    9 Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning.

  • Mic 1:12
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    12 The inhabitants of Maroth writhe in pain, waiting for relief, because disaster has come from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.

  • Mic 7:8
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    8 Do not rejoice over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.

  • Job 3:25-26
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    25 For the thing I dread comes upon me, and what I fear befalls me.

    26 I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, but turmoil comes.

  • Eccl 6:1
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    1 There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it is great upon humanity.

  • Jer 18:20
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    20 Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak on their behalf, to turn Your wrath away from them.

  • Job 5:14
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    14 They encounter darkness by day and grope in the noonday as if it were night.

  • Job 30:16
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    16 And now my soul is poured out within me; days of suffering seize hold of me.

  • Eccl 2:13
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    13 I saw that wisdom is better than folly, just as light is better than darkness.

  • Ps 38:20
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    20 But my enemies are vigorous and strong, and many are those who hate me wrongfully.

  • Ps 69:20
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    20 You know my reproach, my shame, and my disgrace; all my adversaries are before you.

  • Amos 5:20
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    20 Won’t the day of the Lord be darkness and not light, gloom with no brightness in it?

  • Job 3:4
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    4 May that day be darkness; may God above not seek it, nor let light shine upon it.

  • Lam 3:6
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    6 He has made me dwell in dark places, like those long dead.

  • Prov 11:27
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    27 Whoever diligently seeks good finds favor, but trouble will come to the one who searches for evil.

  • Isa 59:9
    69%

    9 Therefore, justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but behold, there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

  • Job 30:13
    69%

    13 They tear up my path; they help advance my ruin, even though no one comes to assist them.

  • Ps 142:4
    69%

    4 When my spirit grows faint within me, You know my path. In the way where I walk, they have hidden a trap for me.

  • Job 18:6
    69%

    6 The light in his tent will grow dark, and the lamp above him will be extinguished.

  • Eccl 3:16
    69%

    16 And I saw under the sun, in the place of judgment, wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness, wickedness was there as well.

  • Eccl 5:17
    69%

    17 Behold, what I have seen is good and fitting: to eat and drink and to enjoy the good of all one's labor under the sun during the few days of life God has given him, for this is his reward.

  • Job 15:23
    69%

    23 He wanders about for food, asking, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand.

  • Isa 5:30
    69%

    30 On that day, they will roar over it like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks at the land, there is only darkness and distress; even the light is darkened by the clouds.

  • Job 16:16
    69%

    16 My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death.

  • Ps 35:15
    69%

    15 But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; attackers I did not know came against me, ripping at me without ceasing.

  • Job 38:19
    69%

    19 Where is the way that light dwells, and where is the place of darkness,

  • Isa 5:20
    69%

    20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness into light and light into darkness, who make bitter sweet and sweet bitter!

  • Prov 1:27
    69%

    27 When your terror comes like a storm, and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

  • Job 29:7
    69%

    7 When I went out to the city gate, and took my seat in the public square,

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