Job 30:26

Surely, for good, I looked, but there came in evil, And I waited for light, but there came in darkness;

Jeremiah 8:15

A waiting For prosperity, but no welfare, - For a time of healing, but lo! terror.

Job 3:25-26

For, a dread, I dreaded, and it hath come upon me, and, that from which I shrank, hath overtaken me.

Jeremiah 14:19

Hast thou, utterly rejected, Judah? Zion itself, hath thy soul loathed? Why, hast thou smitten us so that there is for us no healing? A waiting For prosperity, but no welfare, and For a time of healing, but lo! terror!

Job 18:6

The light, hath darkened in his tent, Yea, his lamp above him, goeth out;

Job 18:18

Let them thrust him out of light into darkness, Yea, out of the world, let them chase him;

Job 19:8

My way, hath he walled up, that I cannot pass, and, upon my paths, hath he made darkness rest;

Job 23:17

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor, before my face, did the gloom form a shroud.

Job 29:18

Then said I, Like a stem, shall I grow old, yea, as the sand, shall I multiply days:

Psalm 97:11

Light, is sown for the righteous one, And, for the upright in heart, rejoicing:

Isaiah 50:10

Who among you, revereth Yahweh, Hearkening unto the voice of his Servant, - That hath walked in dark places And hath had no gleam of light? Let him trust in the name of Yahweh, And lean upon his God.

Jeremiah 15:18

Wherefore hath my pain become perpetual? And my wound, incurable? Refuseth to be healed? Wilt thou, indeed be, to me As a brook that disappointeth, Waters that cannot be trusted?

Micah 1:12

Though the inhabitress of Maroth waited for blessing, - yet there came down calamity from Yahweh, to the gate of Jerusalem.

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Summary

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

Bible References

When i looked

Job 3:25
For, a dread, I dreaded, and it hath come upon me, and, that from which I shrank, hath overtaken me.
Job 29:18
Then said I, Like a stem, shall I grow old, yea, as the sand, shall I multiply days:
Jeremiah 8:15
A waiting For prosperity, but no welfare, - For a time of healing, but lo! terror.
Jeremiah 14:19
Hast thou, utterly rejected, Judah? Zion itself, hath thy soul loathed? Why, hast thou smitten us so that there is for us no healing? A waiting For prosperity, but no welfare, and For a time of healing, but lo! terror!
Jeremiah 15:18
Wherefore hath my pain become perpetual? And my wound, incurable? Refuseth to be healed? Wilt thou, indeed be, to me As a brook that disappointeth, Waters that cannot be trusted?
Micah 1:12
Though the inhabitress of Maroth waited for blessing, - yet there came down calamity from Yahweh, to the gate of Jerusalem.

Light

Job 18:6
The light, hath darkened in his tent, Yea, his lamp above him, goeth out;
Job 23:17
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor, before my face, did the gloom form a shroud.
Psalm 97:11
Light, is sown for the righteous one, And, for the upright in heart, rejoicing:
Isaiah 50:10
Who among you, revereth Yahweh, Hearkening unto the voice of his Servant, - That hath walked in dark places And hath had no gleam of light? Let him trust in the name of Yahweh, And lean upon his God.