Job 30:26

Authorized King James Version (1611)

When I looked for good, then evil came [unto me]: 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 health, and behold trouble!
  • Jer 14:19 : 19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and [there is] no healing for us? we looked for peace, and [there is] no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
  • Job 3:25-26 : 25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. 26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
  • Job 18:6 : 6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
  • Job 19:8 : 8 ¶ He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
  • Job 23:17 : 17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, [neither] hath he covered the 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 the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh [in] darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
  • Jer 15:18 : 18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, [which] refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, [and as] waters [that] fail?
  • Mic 1:12 : 12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.

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    12They rewarded me evil for good [to] the spoiling of my soul.

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