Job 30:26

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But when I hoped for good, trouble came; when I expected light, then darkness came.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 8:15 : 15 We hoped for good fortune, but nothing good has come of it. We hoped for a time of relief, but instead we experience terror.
  • Jer 14:19 : 19 Then I said,“LORD, have you completely rejected the nation of Judah? Do you despise the city of Zion? Why have you struck us with such force that we are beyond recovery? We hope for peace, but nothing good has come of it. We hope for a time of relief from our troubles, but experience terror.
  • Job 3:25-26 : 25 For the very thing I dreaded has happened to me, and what I feared has come upon me. 26 I have no ease, I have no quietness; I cannot rest; turmoil has come upon me.”
  • Job 18:6 : 6 The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.
  • Job 19:8 : 8 He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.
  • Job 23:17 : 17 Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.
  • Job 29:18 : 18 Job’s Confidence“Then I thought,‘I will die in my own home, my days as numerous as the grains of sand.
  • Ps 97:11 : 11 The godly bask in the light; the morally upright experience joy.
  • Isa 50:10 : 10 Who among you fears the LORD? Who obeys his servant? Whoever walks in deep darkness, without light, should trust in the name of the LORD and rely on his God.
  • Jer 15:18 : 18 Why must I continually suffer such painful anguish? Why must I endure the sting of their insults like an incurable wound? Will you let me down when I need you like a brook one goes to for water, but that cannot be relied on?”
  • Mic 1:12 : 12 Indeed, the residents of Maroth hope for something good to happen, though the LORD has sent disaster against the city of Jerusalem.

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    25Have I not wept for the unfortunate? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?

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    12These men change night into day; they say,‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’

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    15We hoped for good fortune, but nothing good has come of it. We hoped for a time of relief, but instead we experience terror.

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    12They repay me evil for the good I have done; I am overwhelmed with sorrow.

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    22When one looks out over the land, he sees distress and darkness, gloom and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land.

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    29If I have rejoiced over the misfortune of my enemy or exulted because calamity found him–

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    11If I were to say,“Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,”

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    21before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

    22to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

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    26if I looked at the sun when it was shining, and the moon advancing as a precious thing,

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    7Job’s Abandonment and Affliction“If I cry out,‘Violence!’ I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice.

    8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

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    17Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

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    9Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,

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    12Indeed, the residents of Maroth hope for something good to happen, though the LORD has sent disaster against the city of Jerusalem.

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    8Jerusalem Will Be Vindicated My enemies, do not gloat over me! Though I have fallen, I will get up. Though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.

  • Job 3:25-26
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    25For the very thing I dreaded has happened to me, and what I feared has come upon me.

    26I have no ease, I have no quietness; I cannot rest; turmoil has come upon me.”

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    1Not Everyone Enjoys Life Here is another misfortune that I have seen on earth, and it weighs heavily on people:

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    20Should good be paid back with evil? Yet they are virtually digging a pit to kill me. Just remember how I stood before you pleading on their behalf to keep you from venting your anger on them.

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    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.

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    13I realized that wisdom is preferable to folly, just as light is preferable to darkness:

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    20They repay me evil for the good I have done; though I have tried to do good to them, they hurl accusations at me.

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    20Their insults are painful and make me lose heart; I look for sympathy, but receive none, for comforters, but find none.

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    20Don’t you realize the LORD’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light– gloomy blackness, not bright light?

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    4That day– let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!

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    6He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.

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    27The one who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but the one who searches for evil– it will come to him.

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    9Israel Confesses its Sin For this reason deliverance is far from us and salvation does not reach us. We wait for light, but see only darkness; we wait for a bright light, but live in deep darkness.

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    13They destroy my path; they succeed in destroying me without anyone assisting them.

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    4Look to the right and see! No one cares about me. I have nowhere to run; no one is concerned about my life.

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    6The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.

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    17Surely, he ate in darkness every day of his life, and he suffered greatly with sickness and anger.

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    23he wanders about– food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.

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    30At that time they will growl over their prey, it will sound like sea waves crashing against rocks. One will look out over the land and see the darkness of disaster, clouds will turn the light into darkness.

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    16my face is reddened because of weeping, and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,

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    15But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; they gathered together to ambush me. They tore at me without stopping to rest.

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    19“In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,

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    20Beware, those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness into light and light into darkness, who turn bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter.

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    27when what you dread comes like a whirlwind, and disaster strikes you like a devastating storm, when distressing trouble comes on you.

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    7When I went out to the city gate and secured my seat in the public square,