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Job 30:26
26When I expected good, then came evil [to me]; And when I waited for light, then came darkness.
Job 30:26 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
- New International Version (NIV)Yet when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, then came darkness.
- English Standard Version (ESV)But when I hoped for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came.
- New King James Version (NKJV)But when I looked for good, evil came to me; And when I waited for light, then came darkness.
Context of Job 30:26
24“However, does not one falling in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand? Or in his disaster [will he not] therefore cry out for help? 25Did I not weep for one whose life was hard and filled with trouble? Was not my heart grieved for the needy? When I expected good, then came evil [to me]; And when I waited for light, then came darkness. 27I am seething within and my heart is troubled and cannot rest; Days of affliction come to meet me. 28I go about mourning without comfort [my skin blackened by disease, not by the heat of the sun]; I stand up in the assembly and cry out for help.
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כִּ֤י ט֣וֹב קִ֭וִּיתִי וַיָּ֣בֹא רָ֑ע וַֽאֲיַחֲלָ֥ה לְ֝א֗וֹר וַיָּ֥בֹא אֹֽפֶל׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 30:26
- Job 3:25For the thing which I greatly fear comes upon me, And that of which I am afraid has come upon me.
- Job 29:18Then I said, ‘I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand.
- Jeremiah 8:15We waited for peace and salvation, but no good came, And for a time of healing, but behold, terror!
- Jeremiah 14:19Have You [O Lord] completely rejected Judah? Do You loathe Zion? Why have You stricken us so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace and completeness, but nothing good came; And [we hoped] for a time of healing, but behold, terror!
- Jeremiah 15:18Why has my pain been perpetual And my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you indeed be to me like a deceptive brook With water that is unreliable?
- Micah 1:12For the inhabitant of Maroth (Bitterness) Writhes in pain [at its losses] and waits anxiously for good, Because a catastrophe has come down from the Lord To the gate of Jerusalem.
- Job 18:6The light will be dark in his tent, And his lamp beside him will be put out.
- Job 23:17But I am not silenced by the darkness [of these woes that fell on me], Nor by the thick darkness which covers my face.
- Psalms 97:11Light is sown [like seed] for the righteous and illuminates their path, And [irrepressible] joy [is spread] for the upright in heart [who delight in His favor and protection].
- Isaiah 50:10Who is among you who fears the Lord, Who obeys the voice of His Servant, Yet who walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust and be confident in the name of the Lord and let him rely on his God.
Commentaries on Job 30:26
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 26When I looked for good - When I supposed that respect would be shown me; or when I looked forward to an honored old age. I expected to be made happy and prosperous through life, as the result of my uprightness and benevolence; but, instead of that, calamity came and swept all my comforts away. He experienced the instability which most people are called to experience, and the divine dealings with him showed that no reliance could be placed on confident…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-31Verses 15-31 Job complains a great deal. Harbouring hard thoughts of God was the sin which did, at this time, most easily beset Job. When inward temptations join with outward calamities, the soul is hurried as in a tempest, and is filled with confusion. But woe be to those who really have God for an enemy! Compared with the awful state of ungodly men, what are all outward, or even inward temporal afflictions? There is something with which Job comforts…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-31Job compares his past happiness, honor, and wealth with his current loss of social dignity and divine friendship (chapters 29 and 30). He ends his speech with broad vows of innocence (chapter 31).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2626. I may be allowed to crave help, seeing that, "when I looked for good (on account of my piety and charity), yet evil," &c. light--(Job 22:28).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 30
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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