Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.
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.
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.
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
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Says: I Am Being Punished By God
25 Did I not weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy? 26 When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness. 27 My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction have come on me.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 8:15
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay.
Job 3:25-26
For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.
Jeremiah 14:19
"Have you utterly rejected Judah? Has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay.
Job 18:6
The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.
Job 18:18
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Job 19:8
He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
Job 23:17
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
Job 29:18
Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.
Psalm 97:11
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
Isaiah 50:10
Who is among you who fears the LORD, who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of the LORD, and rely on his God.
Jeremiah 15:18
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail?"
Micah 1:12
For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.