Job 30:26
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New International Version (©1984)
Yet when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, then came darkness.

New Living Translation (©2007)
So I looked for good, but evil came instead. I waited for the light, but darkness fell.

English Standard Version (©2001)
But when I hoped for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"When I expected good, then evil came; When I waited for light, then darkness came.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When I waited for good, evil came. When I looked for light, darkness came.

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

American King James Version
When I looked for good, then evil came to me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

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

Bible in Basic English
For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out.

Darby Bible Translation
For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness.

English Revised Version
When I looked for good, then evil came; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Webster's Bible Translation
When I looked for good, then evil came: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

World English Bible
When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.

Young's Literal Translation
When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.

Geneva Study Bible

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

(r) Instead of comforting they mocked me.

Wesley's Notes

30:26 Upon me - Yet trouble came upon myself, when I expected it not.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

26. 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).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

30:15-31 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 himself, yet it is but a little. He foresees that death will be the end of all his troubles. God's wrath might bring him to death; but his soul would be safe and happy in the world of spirits. If none pity us, yet our God, who corrects, pities us, even as a father pitieth his own children. And let us look more to the things of eternity: then the believer will cease from mourning, and joyfully praise redeeming love.


Job 3:25 "For what I fear comes upon me, And what I dread befalls me.
Job 3:26 "I am not at ease, nor am I quiet, And I am not at rest, but turmoil comes."
Job 19:8 "He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, And He has put darkness on my paths.
Jeremiah 8:15 We waited for peace, but no good came; For a time of healing, but behold, terror! (NASB ©1995)

Dark Darkness Evil Expected Good Hoped Light Wait Waited Waiting

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

When I looked 3:25,26 29:18 Jer 8:15 14:19 15:18 Mic 1:12

light 18:6,18 23:17 Ps 97:11 Isa 50:10

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