Job 30:26

Geneva Bible (1560)

Yet when I looked for good, euill came vnto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkenesse.

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  • Jer 8:15 : 15 We looked for peace, but no good came, & for a time of health, and behold troubles.
  • Jer 14:19 : 19 Hast thou vtterly reiected Iudah, or hath thy soule abhorred Zion? why hast thou smitten vs, that we cannot be healed? Wee looked for peace, and there is no good, and for the time of health, and behold trouble.
  • Job 3:25-26 : 25 For the thing I feared, is come vpon me, and the thing that I was afraid of, is come vnto me. 26 I had no peace, neither had I quietnesse, neither had I rest, yet trouble is come.
  • Job 18:6 : 6 The light shalbe darke in his dwelling, and his candle shalbe put out with him.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 They shall driue him out of the light vnto darkenesse, and chase him out of the world.
  • Job 19:8 : 8 Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths.
  • Job 23:17 : 17 For I am not cut off in darknesse, but he hath hid the darkenesse from my face.
  • Job 29:18 : 18 Then I sayde, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiplie my dayes as the sand.
  • Ps 97:11 : 11 Light is sowen for the righteous, and ioy for the vpright in heart.
  • Isa 50:10 : 10 Who is among you that feareth the Lord? let him heare the voyce of his seruant: hee that walketh in darkenesse, and hath no light, let him trust in the Name of the Lorde, and staye vpon his God.
  • Jer 15:18 : 18 Why is mine heauines continuall? And my plague desperate and cannot be healed? why art thou vnto me as a lyar, and as waters that faile?
  • Mic 1:12 : 12 For the inhabitant of Maroth wayted for good, but euill came from the Lorde vnto the gate of Ierusalem.

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  • Job 30:27-28
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    27 My bowels did boyle without rest: for the dayes of affliction are come vpon me.

    28 I went mourning without sunne: I stood vp in the congregation and cryed.

  • 25 Did not I weepe with him that was in trouble? was not my soule in heauinesse for the poore?

  • 3 When his light shined vpon mine head: and when by his light I walked thorowe the darkenesse,

  • Lam 3:1-2
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    1 I am the man, that hath seene affliction in the rod of his indignation.

    2 He hath ledde mee, and brought me into darkenes, but not to light.

  • Job 17:12-13
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    12 Haue changed the nyght for the day, and the light that approched, for darkenesse.

    13 Though I hope, yet the graue shall bee mine house, and I shal make my bed in the darke.

  • 15 We looked for peace, but no good came, & for a time of health, and behold troubles.

  • 12 They rewarded me euill for good, to haue spoyled my soule.

  • 22 And when he shall looke to the earth, beholde trouble, and darkenes, vexation and anguish, and he is driuen to darkenes.

  • 29 If I reioyced at his destruction that hated me, or was mooued to ioye when euill came vpon him,

  • 11 If I say, Yet the darkenes shal hide me, euen the night shalbe light about me.

  • 20 Wherefore is the light giuen to him that is in miserie? and life vnto them that haue heauie hearts?

  • Job 10:21-22
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    21 Before I goe and shall not returne, euen to the land of darkenesse and shadow of death:

    22 Into a land, I say, darke as darknes it selfe, and into the shadow of death, where is none order, but the light is there as darkenesse.

  • 26 If I did behold the sunne, when it shined, or the moone, walking in her brightnes,

  • Job 19:7-8
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    7 Beholde, I crie out of violence, but I haue none answere: I crie, but there is no iudgement.

    8 Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths.

  • 17 For I am not cut off in darknesse, but he hath hid the darkenesse from my face.

  • 9 Let the starres of that twilight be dimme through darkenesse of it: let it looke for light, but haue none: neither let it see the dawning of the day,

  • 12 For the inhabitant of Maroth wayted for good, but euill came from the Lorde vnto the gate of Ierusalem.

  • 8 Reioyce not against me, O mine enemie: though I fall, I shall arise: when I shall sit in darkenesse, the Lord shalbe a light vnto me.

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

    26 I had no peace, neither had I quietnesse, neither had I rest, yet trouble is come.

  • 1 There is an euill, which I sawe vnder the sunne, and it is much among men:

  • 20 Shall euill be recompensed for good? for they haue digged a pit for my soule: remember that I stood before thee, to speake good for the, and to turne away thy wrath from them.

  • 14 They meete with darkenesse in the day time, and grope at noone day, as in the night.

  • 16 Therefore my soule is nowe powred out vpon me, and the dayes of affliction haue taken holde on me.

  • 13 Then I saw that there is profite in wisdome, more then in follie: as the light is more excellent then darkenes.

  • 20 They also, that rewarde euill for good, are mine aduersaries, because I followe goodnesse.

  • 20 Rebuke hath broken mine heart, and I am full of heauinesse, and I looked for some to haue pitie on me, but there was none: and for comforters, but I found none.

  • 20 Shal not the day of the Lord be darkenes, and not light? euen darkenes and no light in it?

  • 4 Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regarde it from aboue, neyther let the light shine vpon it,

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

  • 27 He that seeketh good things, getteth fauour: but he that seeketh euill, it shall come to him.

  • 9 Therefore is iudgement farre from vs, neither doeth iustice come neere vnto vs: we waite for light, but loe, it is darkenesse: for brightnesse, but we walke in darkenesse.

  • 13 They haue destroyed my paths: they tooke pleasure at my calamitie, they had none helpe.

  • 4 I looked vpon my right hand, and beheld, but there was none that would knowe me: all refuge failed me, and none cared for my soule.

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

  • 16 And moreouer I haue seene vnder the sunne the place of iudgement, where was wickednesse, and the place of iustice where was iniquitie.

  • 17 (5:16) Also all his dayes hee eateth in darkenes with much griefe, and in his sorowe and anger.

  • 23 He wandreth to and fro for bread where he may: he knoweth that the day of darkenesse is prepared at hande.

  • 30 And in that day they shal roare vpon them, as the roaring of the sea: and if they looke vnto the earth, beholde darkenesse, and sorowe, and the light shalbe darkened in their skie.

  • 16 My face is withered with weeping, and the shadow of death is vpon mine eyes,

  • 15 But in mine aduersitie they reioyced, and gathered them selues together: the abiects assembled themselues against me, and knewe not: they tare me and ceased not,

  • 19 Where is the way where light dwelleth? And where is the place of darkenesse,

  • 20 Woe vnto them that speake good of euill, and euill of good, which put darkenes for light, and light for darkenes, that put bitter for sweete, and sweete for sowre.

  • 27 Whe your feare cometh like sudden desolation, & your destruction shall come like a whirle wind: whe affliction & anguish shal come vpo you,

  • 7 When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seat, and when I caused them to prepare my seate in the streete.