Job 30:26

KJV1611 – Modern English

When I looked for good, then evil came to me; and when I waited for light, darkness came.

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  • 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 Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You struck us down, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, but behold, trouble!
  • Job 3:25-26 : 25 For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, and what I dreaded has happened to me. 26 I was not in safety, nor had I rest, nor was I quiet; yet trouble came.
  • Job 18:6 : 6 The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his lamp 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 has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.
  • Job 23:17 : 17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor has he covered the darkness from my face.
  • Job 29:18 : 18 Then I said, 'I will die in my nest, and I will 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 among you fears the LORD, who obeys the voice of his servant, who walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD, and rely upon his God.
  • Jer 15:18 : 18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? will you be altogether to me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
  • Mic 1:12 : 12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited for good, but evil came down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.

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    27My insides boiled and did not rest: the days of affliction confronted me.

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    25Did I not weep for those in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?

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    3When His lamp shone upon my head, and by His light I walked through darkness;

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    1I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.

    2He has led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

  • Job 17:12-13
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    12They change the night into day; the light is near because of darkness.

    13If I wait, the grave is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.

  • Jer 8:15
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    15We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold, trouble!

  • Ps 35:12
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    12They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.

  • Isa 8:22
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    22And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into darkness.

  • Job 31:29
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    29If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted myself up when evil found him;

  • Ps 139:11
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    11If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

  • Job 3:20
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    20Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;

  • Job 10:21-22
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    21Before I go to the place from which I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

    22A land of darkness, like darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

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    26If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

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    7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no justice.

    8He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.

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    17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor has he covered the darkness from my face.

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    9Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; nor let it see the breaking of dawn:

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    12For the inhabitant of Maroth waited for good, but evil came down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.

  • Mic 7:8
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    8Do not rejoice against me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light to me.

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    25For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, and what I dreaded has happened to me.

    26I was not in safety, nor had I rest, nor was I quiet; yet trouble came.

  • Eccl 6:1
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    1There is an evil I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

  • Jer 18:20
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    20Shall evil be repaid for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before you to speak good for them, and to turn away your wrath from them.

  • Job 5:14
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    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as if it were night.

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    16And now my soul is poured out within me; the days of affliction have seized me.

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    13Then I saw that wisdom excels folly just as light excels darkness.

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    20Those also who render evil for good are my adversaries, because I follow what is good.

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    20Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness; and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

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    20Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, with no brightness in it?

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    4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, nor let the light shine upon it.

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    6He has set me in dark places, like those long dead.

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    27He who diligently seeks good procures favor, but he who seeks evil, it shall come to him.

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    9Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us: we wait for light, but see obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

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    13They mar my path, they advance my calamity, they have no helper.

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    4I looked on my right hand and beheld, but there was no one who would know me; refuge failed me; no one cared for my soul.

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    6The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

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    16Moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

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    17All his days he also eats in darkness, and he has much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

  • Job 15:23
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    23He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

  • Isa 5:30
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    30And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one looks to the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened by the clouds of the heavens.

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    16My face is flushed with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

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    15But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; yes, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they tore me, and did not cease:

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    19Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is its place,

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    20Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

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    27When your fear comes like desolation, and your destruction comes like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you.

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    7When I went out to the gate of the city, when I took my seat in the square!