Job 30:26

In 11 translations

BSB

But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.

KJV

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

WEB

When I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came.

ASV

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

LSV

When I expected good, then comes evil, || And I wait for light, and darkness comes.

YLT

When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

Yet when I looked for good, euill came vnto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkenesse.

JPS

Yet, when I looked for good, there came evil; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

LXXE

But I, when I waited for good things, behold, days of evils came the more upon me.

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WLC

כִּ֤י ט֣וֹב קִ֭וִּיתִי וַיָּ֣בֹא רָ֑ע וַֽאֲיַחֲלָ֥ה לְ֝א֗וֹר וַיָּ֥בֹא אֹֽפֶל׃

LXX-Br

ἐγὼ δὲ ἐπέχων ἀγαθοῖς, ἰδοὺ συνήντησάν μοι μᾶλλον ἡμέραι κακῶν.

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• 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.
• Job 3:25–26For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me. I am not at ease or quiet; I have no rest, for trouble has come.”
• 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.
• 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.
• Job 18:6The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
• Job 19:8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
• Micah 1:12For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.
• 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.
• Job 29:18So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.
• Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

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