Job 30:26

World English Bible (2000)

When I looked for good, then evil came; 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 healing, and behold, dismay!
  • Jer 14:19 : 19 Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
  • Job 3:25-26 : 25 For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me. 26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes."
  • Job 18:6 : 6 The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
  • Job 19:8 : 8 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
  • Job 23:17 : 17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
  • Job 29:18 : 18 Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number 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 who fears Yahweh, who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of Yahweh, and rely on his God.
  • Jer 15:18 : 18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?
  • Mic 1:12 : 12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.

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    27My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction have come on me.

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  • Job 30:25
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    25Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?

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    3when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

  • Lam 3:1-2
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    1I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

    2He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

  • Job 17:12-13
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    12They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

    13If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

  • Jer 8:15
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    15We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!

  • Ps 35:12
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    12They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.

  • Isa 8:22
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    22and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

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

  • Ps 139:11
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    11If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"

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

  • Job 10:21-22
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    21before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

    22the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"

  • Job 31:26
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    26if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

  • Job 19:7-8
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    7"Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

    8He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

  • Job 23:17
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    17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

  • Job 3:9
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    9Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

  • Mic 1:12
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    12For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.

  • Mic 7:8
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    8Don't rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

  • Job 3:25-26
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    25For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.

    26I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes."

  • Eccl 6:1
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    1There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men:

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

  • Job 5:14
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    14They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

  • Job 30:16
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    16"Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.

  • Eccl 2:13
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    13Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.

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    20They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

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

  • Amos 5:20
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    20Won't the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

  • Job 3:4
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    4Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

  • Lam 3:6
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    6He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

  • Prov 11:27
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    27He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.

  • Isa 59:9
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    9Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

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    13They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, without anyone's help.

  • Ps 142:4
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    4Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

  • Job 18:6
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    6The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.

  • Eccl 3:16
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    16Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

  • Eccl 5:17
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    17All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.

  • 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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    30They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

  • Job 16:16
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    16My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.

  • Ps 35:15
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    15But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.

  • Job 38:19
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    19"What is the way to the dwelling of light? 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!

  • Prov 1:27
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    27when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.

  • Job 29:7
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    7when I went forth to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.