When I looked for good, then evil came to me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. Treasury of Scripture When I looked Job 3:25,26 For the thing which I greatly feared is come on me, and that which I was afraid of is come to me... Job 29:18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand. Jeremiah 8:15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble! Jeremiah 14:19 Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you smitten us, and there is no healing for us?... Jeremiah 15:18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you be altogether to me as a liar... Micah 1:12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem. light Job 18:6,18 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him... Job 23:17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither has he covered the darkness from my face. Psalm 97:11 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. Isaiah 50:10 Who is among you that fears the LORD, that obeys the voice of his servant, that walks in darkness, and has no light?...
Context Job's Prosperity Becomes Calamity
15Terrors are turned on me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passes away as a cloud. 16And now my soul is poured out on me; the days of affliction have taken hold on me. 17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. 18By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it binds me about as the collar of my coat. 19He has cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. 20I cry to you, and you do not hear me: I stand up, and you regard me not. 21You are become cruel to me: with your strong hand you oppose yourself against me. 22You lift me up to the wind; you cause me to ride on it, and dissolve my substance. 23For I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. 24However, he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction. 25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor? 26When I looked for good, then evil came to me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. 27My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. 28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation. 29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. 30My skin is black on me, and my bones are burned with heat. 31My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Douay-Rheims Bible
I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out.
Darby Bible Translation
For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness.
King James Bible
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Young's Literal Translation
When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.
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