Job 30:26

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 8:15 : 15 Looking for peace -- and there is no good, For a time of healing, and lo, terror.
  • Jer 14:19 : 19 Hast Thou utterly rejected Judah? Zion hath Thy soul loathed? Wherefore hast Thou smitten us, And there is no healing to us? Looking for peace, and there is no good, And for a time of healing, and lo, terror.
  • Job 3:25-26 : 25 For a fear I feared and it meeteth me, And what I was afraid of doth come to me. 26 I was not safe -- nor was I quiet -- Nor was I at rest -- and trouble cometh!
  • Job 18:6 : 6 The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.
  • Job 19:8 : 8 My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.
  • Job 23:17 : 17 For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.
  • Job 29:18 : 18 And I say, `With my nest I expire, And as the sand I multiply days.'
  • Ps 97:11 : 11 Light `is' sown for the righteous, And for the upright of heart -- joy.
  • Isa 50:10 : 10 Who `is' among you, fearing Jehovah, Hearkening to the voice of His servant, That hath walked in dark places, And there is no brightness for him? Let him trust in the name of Jehovah, And lean upon his God.
  • Jer 15:18 : 18 Why hath my pain been perpetual? And my wound incurable? It hath refused to be healed, Thou art surely to me as a failing stream, Waters not stedfast.
  • Mic 1:12 : 12 For stayed for good hath the inhabitant of Maroth, For evil hath come down from Jehovah to the gate of Jerusalem.

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    25Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.

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  • Job 17:12-13
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    12Night for day they appoint, Light `is' near because of darkness.

    13If I wait -- Sheol `is' my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.

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    15Looking for peace -- and there is no good, For a time of healing, and lo, terror.

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    12They pay me evil for good, bereaving my soul,

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    22And unto the land it looketh attentively, And lo, adversity and darkness! -- Dimness, distress, and thick darkness is driven away, But not the dimness for which she is in distress!

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    29If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him,

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    11And I say, `Surely darkness bruiseth me, Then night `is' light to me.

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    20Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?

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    21Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,

    22A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade -- and no order, And the shining `is' as thick darkness.'

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    26If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon walking,

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    7Lo, I cry out -- violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.

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    17For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.

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    9Let the stars of its twilight be dark, Let it wait for light, and there is none, And let it not look on the eyelids of the dawn.

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    12For stayed for good hath the inhabitant of Maroth, For evil hath come down from Jehovah to the gate of Jerusalem.

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    8Thou dost not rejoice over me, O mine enemy, When I have fallen, I have risen, When I sit in darkness Jehovah is a light to me.

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    25For a fear I feared and it meeteth me, And what I was afraid of doth come to me.

    26I was not safe -- nor was I quiet -- Nor was I at rest -- and trouble cometh!

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    1There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it `is' great on man:

  • Jer 18:20
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    20Is evil recompensed instead of good, That they have dug a pit for my soul? Remember my standing before Thee to speak good of them, To turn back Thy wrath from them.

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    14By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.

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    16And now, in me my soul poureth itself out, Seize me do days of affliction.

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    20Is not the day of Jehovah darkness and not light, Even thick darkness that hath no brightness?

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    6In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.

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    27Whoso is earnestly seeking good Seeketh a pleasing thing, And whoso is seeking evil -- it meeteth him.

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    9Therefore hath judgment been far from us, And righteousness reacheth us not, We wait for light, and lo, darkness, For brightness -- in thick darkness we go,

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    13They have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, `He hath no helper.'

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    4Looking on the right hand -- and seeing, And I have none recognizing; Perished hath refuge from me, There is none inquiring for my soul.

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    6The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.

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    16And again, I have seen under the sun the place of judgment -- there `is' the wicked; and the place of righteousness -- there `is' the wicked.

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    17Also all his days in darkness he consumeth, and sadness, and wrath, and sickness abound.

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    23He is wandering for bread -- `Where `is' it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.

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    30And it howleth against it in that day as the howling of a sea, And it hath looked attentively to the land, And lo, darkness -- distress, And light hath been darkened by its abundance!

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    16My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids `is' death-shade.

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    15And -- in my halting they have rejoiced, And have been gathered together, Gathered against me were the smiters, And I have not known, They have rent, and they have not ceased;

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    19Where `is' this -- the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where `is' this -- its place?

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    20Wo `to' those saying to evil `good,' And to good `evil,' Putting darkness for light, and light for darkness, Putting bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.

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    27When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.

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    7When I go out to the gate by the city, In a broad place I prepare my seat.