Job 30:26
But when I hoped for good, trouble came; when I expected light, then darkness came.
Jeremiah 8:15
We hoped for good fortune, but nothing good has come of it. We hoped for a time of relief, but instead we experience terror.
Job 3:25-26
For the very thing I dreaded has happened to me, and what I feared has come upon me.
Jeremiah 14:19
Then I said, "Lord, have you completely rejected the nation of Judah? Do you despise the city of Zion? Why have you struck us with such force that we are beyond recovery? We hope for peace, but nothing good has come of it. We hope for a time of relief from our troubles, but experience terror.
Job 18:6
The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.
Job 18:18
He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.
Job 19:8
He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.
Job 23:17
Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.
Job 29:18
"Then I thought, 'I will die in my own home, my days as numerous as the grains of sand.
Psalm 97:11
The godly bask in the light; the morally upright experience joy.
Isaiah 50:10
Who among you fears the Lord? Who obeys his servant? Whoever walks in deep darkness, without light, should trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.
Jeremiah 15:18
Why must I continually suffer such painful anguish? Why must I endure the sting of their insults like an incurable wound? Will you let me down when I need you like a brook one goes to for water, but that cannot be relied on?"
Micah 1:12
Indeed, the residents of Maroth hope for something good to happen, though the Lord has sent disaster against the city of Jerusalem.