Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

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

New American Standard Bible

“When I expected good, then evil came;
When I waited for light, then darkness came.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

But when I hoped for good, evil came;
when I looked for light, darkness came.

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.

Bible in Basic English

For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
קוה 
Qavah 
Usage: 49


come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

unto me and when I waited
יחל 
Yachal 
Usage: 41

אור 
'owr 
Usage: 122


come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

Context Readings

Job Says: I Am Being Punished By God

25 Verily I wept, for him whose lot was hard, Grieved was my soul, for the needy. 26 Surely, for good, I looked, but there came in evil, And I waited for light, but there came in darkness; 27 I boiled within me, and rested not, There confronted me - days of affliction;

Cross References

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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