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 which I greatly feared hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath 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
Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? Why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
Jeremiah 15:18
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether to me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
Micah 1:12
For the inhabitant of Maroth waited anxiously for good: but evil came down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.

Light

Job 18:6
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 hath 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 feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and rely upon his God.