Job 30:26
“When I looked for good, then euill came vnto mee: and when I waited for light, there came darkenes.”
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Job 30:26 Context
24Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the graue, though they cry in his destruction. 25Did not I weepe for him that was in trouble? was not my soule grieued for the poore? 26When I looked for good, then euill came vnto mee: and when I waited for light, there came darkenes. 27My bowels boyled and rested not: the dayes of affliction preuented mee. 28I went mourning without the Sunne: I stood vp, and I cried in the Congregation.
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Other Translations for Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then evil came [unto me]: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
- King James Version
"When I expected good, then evil came; When I waited for light, then darkness came.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness.
- American Standard Version (1901)
For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.
- Basic English Bible
For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness.
- Darby Bible
When I looked for good, then evil came: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
- Webster's Bible
When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.
- World English Bible
When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.
- Youngs Literal Bible
Yet, when I looked for good, there came evil; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Job 30:26
30:26 Upon me - Yet trouble came upon myself, when I expected it not.