Job 30:26
For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.
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Job 30:26
For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.
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Deuteronomy 28:29
You will go feeling your way when the sun is high, like a blind man for whom all is dark, and nothing will go well for you: you will be crushed and made poor for ever, and you will have no saviour.
1 Samuel 4:13
And when he came, Eli was seated by the wayside watching: and in his heart was fear for the ark of God. And when the man came into the town and gave the news, there was a great outcry.
Isaiah 59:10
We go on our way, like blind men feeling for the wall, even like those who have no eyes: we are running against things in daylight as if it was evening; our place is in the dark like dead men.
Isaiah 59:11
We make noises of grief, like bears, and sad sounds like doves: we are looking for our right, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us.
Lamentations 4:17
Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.
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2 Samuel 22:38
I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome.
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Job 3:6
That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
Job 3:9
Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.
Job 23:17
For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.
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Job 9:22
It is all the same to me; so I say, He puts an end to the sinner and to him who has done no wrong together.
Job 21:7
Why is life given to the evil-doers? why do they become old and strong in power?
Job 24:1
Why are times not stored up by the Ruler of all, and why do those who have knowledge of him not see his days?
Job 34:9
For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God.
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Job 29:23
They were waiting for me as for the rain, opening their mouths wide as for the spring rains.
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Psalms 18:25
On him who has mercy you will have mercy; to the upright you will be upright;
Isaiah 33:1
Ho! you who make waste those who did not make you waste; acting falsely to those who were not false to you. When you have come to an end of wasting, you will be made waste, and after your false acts, they will do the same to you.
Matthew 7:2
For as you have been judging, so you will be judged, and with your measure will it be measured to you.
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Job 33:28
He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.
Psalms 10:1
Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen in times of trouble?
Psalms 13:1
To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me?
Psalms 13:2
How long is my soul to be in doubt, with sorrow in my heart all the day? how long will he who is against me be given power over me?
Psalms 13:3
Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;
Psalms 30:7
Lord, by your grace you have kept my mountain strong: when your face was turned from me I was troubled.
Psalms 38:6
I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.
Psalms 42:9
I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
Psalms 43:2
You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
Psalms 88:6
You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.
Psalms 102:10
Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.
Psalms 104:29
If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.
Psalms 143:7
Be quick in answering me, O Lord, for the strength of my spirit is gone: let me see your face, so that I may not be like those who go down into the underworld.
Isaiah 38:17
See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.
Jeremiah 15:18
Why is my pain unending and my wound without hope of being made well? Sorrow is mine, for you are to me as a stream offering false hope and as waters which are not certain.
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Psalms 88:9
My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you.
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2 Samuel 22:29
For you are my light, O Lord; and the Lord will make the dark bright for me.
Job 18:6
The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.
Job 19:8
My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.
Job 22:28
Your purposes will come about, and light will be shining on your ways.
Psalms 97:11
Light is shining on the lovers of righteousness, and for the upright in heart there is joy.
Psalms 112:4
For the upright there is a light shining in the dark; he is full of grace and pity.
Ecclesiastes 11:8
But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.
Isaiah 9:1
In earlier times he made the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali of small value, but after that he gave it glory, by the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
Isaiah 24:11
There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; there is an end of all delight, the joy of the land is gone.
Isaiah 58:8
Then will light be shining on you like the morning, and your wounds will quickly be well: and your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will come after you.
Isaiah 58:10
And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun:
Luke 22:53
When I was in the Temple with you every day, your hands were not stretched out against me: but this is your hour, and the authority of the dark power.
John 8:12
Then again Jesus said to them, I am the light of the world; he who comes with me will not be walking in the dark but will have the light of life.
John 16:20
Truly I say to you, You will be weeping and sorrowing, but the world will be glad: you will be sad, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
Acts 27:20
And as we had not seen the sun or stars for a long time, and a great storm was on us, all hope of salvation was gone.
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Lamentations 2:1
How has the daughter of Zion been covered with a cloud by the Lord in his wrath! he has sent down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel, and has not kept in memory the resting-place of his feet in the day of his wrath.
Lamentations 3:53
They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.
Lamentations 3:54
Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off.
Lamentations 3:55
I was making prayer to your name, O Lord, out of the lowest prison.
Jude 1:6
And the angels who did not keep to their kingdom but went out from the place which was theirs, he has put in eternal chains and in dark night till the great day of the judging.
Jude 1:13
Violent waves of the sea, streaming with their shame, wandering stars for whom the darkest night is kept in store for ever.
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Habakkuk 3:17
For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:
Habakkuk 3:18
Still, I will be glad in the Lord, my joy will be in the God of my salvation.
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