Job 30:26 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

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

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

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

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

JPS:

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

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

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

Job 30:26 Cross References

XREF:

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)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

30:26 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.

WES:

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

MHC:

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.

CONC:

Dark Darkness Evil Expected Hoped Wait Waited Waiting Yet

Dark Darkness Evil Expected Good Hoped Light Wait Waited Waiting

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