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Job 30:26

World English Bible

When I looked for good, then evil came.
When I waited for light, darkness came.

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Job 30:26 in other translations

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

Job 30:26 · American Standard Version

Job 30:26 in context

  1. 24“However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall?
    Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
  2. 25Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble?
    Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?
  3. 26When I looked for good, then evil came.
    When I waited for light, darkness came.
  4. 27My heart is troubled, and doesn’t rest.
    Days of affliction have come on me.
  5. 28I go mourning without the sun.
    I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.