Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.
New American Standard Bible
When I waited for light,
King James Version
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Holman Bible
when I looked for light, darkness
International Standard Version
I have hoped for good, but evil came instead; I have hoped for light, but darkness came.
A Conservative Version
When I looked for good, then evil came. And when I waited for light, there came darkness.
American Standard Version
When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Amplified
“When I expected good, then came evil [to me];
And when I waited for light, then came darkness.
Darby Translation
For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness.
Julia Smith Translation
For I hoped for good and evil will come: and I shall wait for light and darkness will come.
King James 2000
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Indeed, I hoped for good, but evil came, and I waited for light, but darkness came.
Modern King James verseion
When I looked for good, then evil came; and when I waited for light, then darkness came.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Yet nevertheless, whereas I looked for good, evil happened unto me; and whereas I waited for light, there came darkness.
NET Bible
But when I hoped for good, trouble came; when I expected light, then darkness came.
New Heart English Bible
When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.
The Emphasized Bible
Surely, for good, I looked, but there came in evil, And I waited for light, but there came in darkness;
Webster
When I looked for good, then evil came: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
World English Bible
When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.
Youngs Literal Translation
When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 30:26
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Context Readings
Job Says: I Am Being Punished By God
25 Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need? 26 For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark. 27 My feelings are strongly moved, and give me no rest; days of trouble have overtaken me.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 8:15
We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.
Job 3:25-26
For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.
Jeremiah 14:19
Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.
Job 18:6
The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.
Job 18:18
He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.
Job 19:8
My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.
Job 23:17
For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.
Job 29:18
Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number;
Psalm 97:11
Light is shining on the lovers of righteousness, and for the upright in heart there is joy.
Isaiah 50:10
Who among you has the fear of the Lord, giving ear to the voice of his servant who has been walking in the dark and has no light? Let him put his faith in the name of the Lord, looking to his God for support.
Jeremiah 15:18
Why is my pain unending and my wound without hope of being made well? Sorrow is mine, for you are to me as a stream offering false hope and as waters which are not certain.
Micah 1:12
For the one living in Maroth is waiting for good: for evil has come down from the Lord to the doorways of Jerusalem.