Job 30:26
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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12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
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22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
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7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!