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Job 30:26 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: 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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24 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

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

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

28 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."

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."

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."

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