Job 30:26

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

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Deuteronomy 28:29
You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.

1 Samuel 4:13
When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for God’s ark. When the man came into the city and told about it, all the city cried out.

Isaiah 59:10
We grope for the wall like the blind. Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were twilight. Among those who are strong, we are like dead men.

Isaiah 59:11
We all roar like bears and moan sadly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.

Lamentations 4:17
Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

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2 Samuel 22:38
I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them. I didn’t turn again until they were consumed.

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Job 3:6
As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.

Job 3:9
Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

Job 23:17
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

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Job 9:22
“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.

Job 21:7
“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

Job 24:1
“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?

Job 34:9
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’

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Job 29:23
They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.

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Psalms 18:25
With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.

Isaiah 33:1
Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed, and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.

Matthew 7:2
For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

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Job 33:28
He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’

Psalms 10:1
Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

Psalms 13:1
How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

Psalms 13:2
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?

Psalms 13:3
Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

Psalms 30:7
You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

Psalms 38:6
I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

Psalms 42:9
I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

Psalms 43:2
For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Psalms 88:6
You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

Psalms 102:10
because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have taken me up and thrown me away.

Psalms 104:29
You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

Psalms 143:7
Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.

Isaiah 38:17
Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

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, like waters that fail?

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Psalms 88:9
My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.

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2 Samuel 22:29
For you are my lamp, Yahweh. Yahweh will light up my darkness.

Job 18:6
The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.

Job 19:8
He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

Job 22:28
You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.

Psalms 97:11
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

Psalms 112:4
Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

Ecclesiastes 11:8
Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

Isaiah 9:1
But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

Isaiah 24:11
There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.

Isaiah 58:8
Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

Isaiah 58:10
and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;

Luke 22:53
When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”

John 8:12
Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

John 16:20
Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

Acts 27:20
When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.

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Lamentations 2:1
How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast the beauty of Israel down from heaven to the earth, and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

Lamentations 3:53
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.

Lamentations 3:54
Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”

Lamentations 3:55
I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.

Jude 1:6
Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

Jude 1:13
wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

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Habakkuk 3:17
For even though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines, the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food, the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls,

Habakkuk 3:18
yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

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