Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 the thing I feared has overtaken me,
and what I dreaded has happened to me.
Job 29:18
So I thought: I will die in my own nest
and multiply my days as the sand.
Jeremiah 8:15
We hoped for peace, but there was nothing good;
for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
Jeremiah 14:19
Have You completely rejected Judah?
Do You detest Zion?
Why do You strike us
with no hope of healing for us?
We hoped for peace,
but there was nothing good;
for a time of healing,
but there was only terror.
Jeremiah 15:18
Why has my pain become unending,
my wound incurable,
refusing to be healed?
You truly have become like a mirage to me—
water that is not reliable.
Micah 1:12
Though the residents of Maroth
anxiously wait for something good,
disaster has come from the Lord
to the gate of Jerusalem.

Light

Job 18:6
The light in his tent grows dark,
and the lamp beside him is put out.
Job 23:17
Yet I am not destroyed by the darkness,
by the thick darkness that covers my face.


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Psalm 97:11
Light dawns for the righteous,
gladness for the upright in heart.
Isaiah 50:10
Who among you fears the Lord,
listening to the voice of His Servant?
Who among you walks in darkness,
and has no light?
Let him trust in the name of Yahweh;
let him lean on his God.

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