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Job 30:26
Job 30:26 is verse 26 of Job chapter 30, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
King James Version
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: 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, darkness came.
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Job 30:24–28 · Berean Standard Bible
24 Yet no one stretches out his hand to a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.
25 Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?
26 But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
27 I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.
28 I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 3:25For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.
Job 3:26I am not at ease or quiet; I have no rest, for trouble has come.”
Job 29:18So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.
Jeremiah 8:15We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
Jeremiah 14:19Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.
Jeremiah 15:18Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me— water that is not there.
Micah 1:12For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.
Job 18:6The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
Job 23:17Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.
Psalms 97:11Light shines on the righteous, gladness on the upright in heart.
Isaiah 50:10Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of His Servant? Who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD; let him lean on his God.