Job 30:26 — Meaning and Application

King James Version

“When I looked for good, then evil came {unto me}: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.”

Job 30:26

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Howbeit he will not stretch out {his} hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction. {grave: Heb. heap}

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was {not} my soul grieved for the poor? {in trouble: Heb. hard of day?}

When I looked for good, then evil came {unto me}: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, {and} I cried in the congregation.

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Job 30:1

"But now {they that are} younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. {younger...: Heb. of fewer days than I}"

Job 30:2

"Yea, whereto {might} the strength of their hands {profit} me, in whom old age was perished?"

Job 30:3

"For want and famine {they were} solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. {solitary: or, dark as the night} {in...: Heb. yesternight}"

Job 30:4

"Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots {for} their meat."

Job 30:5

"They were driven forth from among {men}, (they cried after them as {after} a thief;)"

Job 30:6

"To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, {in} caves of the earth, and {in} the rocks. {caves: Heb. holes}"

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