Job 30:26

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Yet neuerthelesse, where as I loked for good, euyll came vnto me: & where I wayted for light, there came darkenesse.

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  • Jer 8:15 : 15 We loked for peace, and we fare not the better, we wayted for the tyme of health, and lo, here is nothing but trouble.
  • Jer 14:19 : 19 Hast thou then vtterly forsaken Iuda? Doest thou so abhorre Sion? Wherfore hast thou so plagued vs, that we can be healed no more? We loked for peace, and there commeth no good, for the tyme of health, and lo here is nothyng but trouble.
  • Job 3:25-26 : 25 For the thing that I feared is come vpon me, and the thing that I was afrayde of is happened vnto me, 26 Was I not happy? Had I not quietnesse? Was I not in rest? And nowe commeth such miserie vpon me.
  • Job 18:6 : 6 The light shall be darke in his dwelling, and his candle shall be put out with him.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 They shall driue him from the light into darkenesse, and chaste him cleane out of the worlde.
  • Job 19:8 : 8 He hath hedged vp my way that I can not passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my pathes.
  • Job 23:17 : 17 Because I am not cut of before the darkenesse, neither hath he couered the cloude fro my face.
  • Job 29:18 : 18 Then I sayde, I shall die in my nest: and I shall multiplie my dayes as the sande.
  • Ps 97:11 : 11 There is sowen a lyght for the ryghteous: and gladnesse for such as be vpryght of heart.
  • Isa 50:10 : 10 Therfore who so feareth the Lorde among you, let hym heare the voyce of his seruaunt: Who so walketh in darknesse and no lyght shyneth vpon hym, let hym put his trust in the name of the Lorde, and holde hym by his God.
  • Jer 15:18 : 18 Shall my heauinesse endure for euer? Are my plagues then so great that they may neuer be healed? Wylt thou be as one that is false, and as a water that falleth, and can not continue?
  • Mic 1:12 : 12 For the inhabitautes of Maroth wayled for good, but the plague shall come from the Lorde, euen vnto the gates of Hierusalem.

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  • Job 30:27-28
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    27 My bowels seethe in me without rest, for the dayes of my trouble are come vpon me.

    28 I went mourning without heate, I stoode vp in the congregation, & communed with them.

  • 25 Dyd not I weepe with hym that was in trouble? Had not my soule compassion vpon the poore?

  • 3 When his light shined vpon my head, when I went after the same light and shining, euen through the darknesse:

  • Lam 3:1-2
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    1 I am the man that thorowe the rodde of his wrath haue experience of miserie.

    2 He droue me foorth and led me, yea into darknesse, but not into light.

  • Job 17:12-13
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    12 Chaunging the night into day, and the light approching into darkenesse.

    13 Though I tary neuer so much, yet the graue is my house, & I haue made my bed in the darke.

  • 15 We loked for peace, and we fare not the better, we wayted for the tyme of health, and lo, here is nothing but trouble.

  • 12 They rewarded me euill for good: to the great discomfort of my soule.

  • 22 And beholde there is trouble and darknesse, dymnesse is rounde about him, & he shalbe driuen into darknesse.

  • 29 Haue I euer reioyced at the hurt of myne enemie? or was I euer glad that any harme happened vnto him? Oh, no.

  • 11 And yf I say peraduenture the darknesse shall couer me: and the night shalbe day for me,

  • 20 Wherefore is the light geuen to hym that is in miserie? & lyfe vnto them that haue heauy heartes?

  • Job 10:21-22
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    21 Afore I go thyther from whence I shall not turne againe, euen to the lande of darknesse and shadowe of death:

    22 Yea a lande as darke as darknesse it selfe, and into the shadowe of death where is none order, but the light is there as darknesse.

  • 26 Dyd I euer greatly regarde the rysing of the sunne? or had I the goyng downe of the moone in great reputation?

  • Job 19:7-8
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    7 If I complaine of the violence that is done vnto me, I cannot be heard: and if I crye, there is no sentence geuen with me.

    8 He hath hedged vp my way that I can not passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my pathes.

  • 17 Because I am not cut of before the darkenesse, neither hath he couered the cloude fro my face.

  • 9 Let the starres of that night be dimme thorowe darkenesse of it, let it loke for light, but haue none, neither let it see the dawning of the day:

  • 12 For the inhabitautes of Maroth wayled for good, but the plague shall come from the Lorde, euen vnto the gates of Hierusalem.

  • 8 O thou enemie of myne reioyce not at my fall, for I shall rise againe: & though I sit in darkenesse, yet the Lorde is my light.

  • Job 3:25-26
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    25 For the thing that I feared is come vpon me, and the thing that I was afrayde of is happened vnto me,

    26 Was I not happy? Had I not quietnesse? Was I not in rest? And nowe commeth such miserie vpon me.

  • 1 There is yet a plague vnder the sunne, and it is a generall thyng among men:

  • 20 Shall they recompence euyll for good? for they haue digged a pit for my soule: Remember howe that I stoode before thee to speake good for them, and to turne away thy wrath from them.

  • 14 They runne into darknesse by fayre day, and grope at the noone day as in the night.

  • 16 Therfore is my soule now powred out vpon me, and the dayes of my trouble haue taken hold vpon me.

  • 13 And I sawe that wisdome excelleth foolishnesse, as farre as light doth darknesse.

  • 20 They also that rewarde euyl for good are agaynst me: because I folowe the thyng that is good.

  • 20 Reproofe hath broke my heart a peeces, I am full of heauinesse: I loked for some to haue pitie on me, but there was none, and for some that shoulde comfort me, but I coulde fynde none.

  • 20 Shall not the day of the Lorde be darkenesse, and not light? euen darkenesse and no light in it.

  • 4 The same day be turned to darknesse, and not regarded of God from aboue, neither let the light shyne vpon it:

  • 6 He hath set me in darknesse, as they that be dead for euer.

  • 27 He that searcheth for good thynges fyndeth fauour: but who so seketh after mischiefe, it shall happen vnto hym.

  • 9 And this is the cause that equitie is so farre from vs, and that righteousnesse commeth not nie vs: We loke for light, lo it is darknesse: for the morning shine, see, we walke in the darke.

  • 13 My pathes haue they cleane marred, it was so easye for them to do me harme, that they needed no man to help them.

  • 4 When I loked vpon my ryght hande and sawe rounde about me there was no man that woulde knowe me: I had no place to flee vnto, and no man cared for my soule.

  • 6 The light shall be darke in his dwelling, and his candle shall be put out with him.

  • 16 Moreouer, I sawe vnder the sunne vngodlynes in the steade of iudgement, & iniquitie in steade of righteousnesse.

  • 17 All the dayes of his lyfe also he dyd eate in the darke, with great carefulnesse, sicknesse, and sorowe.

  • 23 He wandreth abrode for bread where it is, knowing that the day of darkenesse is redie at his hande.

  • 30 In that day he shalbe so fierce vpon him as the raging of the sea: then one shall beholde the lande, and lo darkenesse and sorow, and the light is darkened in the heauens therof.

  • 16 My face is withered with weeping, & in mine eyes is the shadowe of death.

  • 15 But in mine aduersitie they reioysed and gathered them together: yea, the very abiectes came together against me, yer I wyst they rented me a peeces and ceassed not.

  • 19 Then shewe me the way where light dwelleth, & where is the place of darkenesse?

  • 20 Wo be vnto them that call euyll good, and good euyll, which make darknesse lyght, and lyght darknesse, that make sowre sweete, and sweete sowre.

  • 27 Euen when the thyng that ye be afraide of falleth in sodenly like a storme, and your miserie lyke a tempest, yea when trouble and heauinesse commeth vpon you.

  • 7 When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seate, and when I prepared my seate in the streete: