Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

For I hoped for good and evil will come: and I shall wait for light and darkness will come.

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.

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.

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 If I wept not for him being hard of day: my soul was grieved for the needy. 26 For I hoped for good and evil will come: and I shall wait for light and darkness will come. 27 My bowels boiled, and were not silent: the days of affliction anticipated me.

Cross References

Jeremiah 8:15

Hoping for peace, and no good; for a time of healing, and behold, terror.

Job 3:25-26

For I feared a fear, and it will come upon me, and what I was afraid of will come to me.

Jeremiah 14:19

Rejecting, didst thou reject Judah? if thy soul abhorred in Zion? wherefore didst thou smite us, and no healing to us? waiting for peace, and no good; and for a time of healing, and behold terror.

Job 18:6

The light was darkened in his tent, and his lamp shall be extinguished for him.

Job 18:18

They shall drive him out of light into darkness, and they shall exclude him from the habitable globe.

Job 19:8

He walled up my path and I shall not pass, and he will set darkness upon my beaten paths.

Job 23:17

For I was not cut off from the face of darkness, and he covered misfortune from my face.

Job 29:18

And saying, I shall expire with my nest I shall multiply days as the sand.

Psalm 97:11

Light was sown for the just one, and gladness for the upright of heart

Isaiah 50:10

Who among you fearing Jehovah, hearing to the voice of his servant? who goes in darkness and no light to him? he shall trust in the name of Jehovah and rest upon his God.

Jeremiah 15:18

Wherefore was my pain everlasting and my blow incurable, refusing to be healed? Being, wilt thou be to me as falsehood, the waters were not faithful?

Micah 1:12

For she dwelling in bitterness was anxious for good: but evil came down from Jehovah to the gate of Jerusalem.

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