26When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.


In Context

23 For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And to the house appointed for all living.

24 Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety.

25 Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.

26 When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.

27 My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction.

28 Mourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an assembly I cry.

Job 30:26 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

30:26When I looked for good, then evil came [unto me:] and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

30:26Yet when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, then came darkness.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

30:26I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

30:26When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:26For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

30:26When I looked for good, then evil came; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:26When I looked for good, then evil came: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:26When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

30:26When I looked for good, then evil came to me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.