Job 30:26
But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness came.
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When I looked

Job 3:25, 26
For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me. . . .

Job 29:18
So I thought: 'I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.

Jeremiah 8:15
We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

Jeremiah 14:19
Have 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 15:18
Why 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 1:12
For the residents of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.

light

Job 18:6, 18
The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out. . . .

Job 23:17
Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

Psalm 97:11
Light is sown on the righteous, gladness on the upright in heart.

Isaiah 50:10
Who 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.

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
"When I expected good, then evil came; When I waited for light, then darkness came.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness came.

International Standard Version
I have hoped for good, but evil came instead; I have hoped for light, but darkness came.

NET Bible
But when I hoped for good, trouble came; when I expected light, then darkness came.
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