Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came.
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Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came.
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Jeremiah 8:15
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
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!
Micah 1:12
For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.
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Job 30:24
“However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
Job 30:25
Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?
Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came.
Job 30:27
My heart is troubled, and doesn’t rest. Days of affliction have come on me.
Job 30:28
I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
Job 30:29
I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
Job 30:30
My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
Job 30:31
Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
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Job 3:25
For the thing which I fear comes on me, that which I am afraid of comes to me.
Job 29:18
Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.
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Job 3:26
I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; but trouble comes.”
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Job 18:18
He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Isaiah 59:9
Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
Isaiah 5:30
They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.
Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.
Lamentations 3:2
He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.
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Job 11:17
Life will be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning.
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Job 16:6
“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?
Job 19:18
Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
Psalms 139:8
If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!
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Isaiah 50:10
Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.
Micah 7:8
Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.
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Amos 5:18
“Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.
Amos 5:19
As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.
Amos 5:20
Won’t the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
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