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Job 30:26

When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

KJV

Expectabam bona, et venerunt mihi mala : præstolabar lucem, et eruperunt tenebræ.

Vulgate

ἐγὼ δὲ ἐπέχων ἀγαθοῖς, ἰδοὺ συνήντησάν μοι μᾶλλον ἡμέραι κακῶν.

LXX

When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness.

ASV

כִּ֤י ט֣וֹב קִ֭וִּיתִי וַ/יָּ֣בֹא רָ֑ע וַֽ/אֲיַחֲלָ֥ה לְ֝/א֗וֹר וַ/יָּ֥בֹא אֹֽפֶל

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

א֣וֹר
'vr
noun · 120×
אֹ֣פֶל
'pl
noun · 9×
בָּ֣א
b'
verb · 2573×
ט֣וֹב
tvb
verb · 562×
יִחָֽלְתִּי
ychlty
verb · 40×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
קַוֵּ֥ה
qvh
verb · 48×
רָ֑ע
r'
verb · 664×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Isa 50:10 — 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.
  • Isa 59:9 — Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
  • Jer 8:15 — We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
  • Jer 14:19 — 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 behol
  • Jer 14:19 — 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 behol
  • Job 3:25 — For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
  • Job 18:6 — The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
  • Job 19:8 — He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
  • Job 19:8 — He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
  • Job 23:17 — Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.
  • Lam 3:2 — He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
  • Mic 1:12 — For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
  • Mic 1:12 — For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
  • Ps 97:11 — Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.