OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 26

Job 30:26

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When I looked for good, then evil came.

When I waited for light, darkness came.

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Job 30:26 in context

Job 30:23–29

23

For I know that you will bring me to death,

to the house appointed for all living.

24

“However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall?

Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

25

Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble?

Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?

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When I looked for good, then evil came.

When I waited for light, darkness came.

27

My heart is troubled, and doesn’t rest.

Days of affliction have come on me.

28

I go mourning without the sun.

I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

29

I am a brother to jackals,

and a companion to ostriches.

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