Job 30:26 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Job 30:26 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  When I looked for good - When I supposed that respect would be shown me; or when I looked forward to an honored old age. I expected to be made happy and prosperous through life, as the result of...

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• Job 30:26 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  When I looked for good, then (r) evil came [unto me]: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. (r) Instead of comforting they mocked me.

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• Job 30:26 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 30. Job's Present Misery. As the text stands at present, Job begins by complaining that the very abjects of society now despise him. Many scholars, however, detach Job 30:2-8 as a misplaced s...

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• Job 30:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  darkness. Hebrew. ophel . See note on Job 3:6 .

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• Job 30:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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

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• Job 30:26 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  When I looked for good, &c.— See the note on chap. Job 3:25-26 .

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• Job 30:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. I may be allowed to crave help, seeing that "when I looked for good (on account of my piety an...

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• Job 30:26 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's Present Misery Job bitterly contrasts his present with his past condition, as described in Job 29 . It must be borne in mind that Job was now outcast and beggared. 1-8. Job complains tha...

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• Job 30:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  When I looked for good. — Before, in Job 3:25-26 , he had spoken as one who did not wish to be the fool of prosperity, and so overtaken unawares by calamity, and who therefore looked at things o...

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• Job 30:26 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1-25 ; Job 30:1-31 ; Job 31:1-40 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job...

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• Job 30:26 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Immediately Job passed to the description of his present condition, which is all the more startling as it stands in contrast with what he had said concerning the past. He first described the base who...

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• Job 30:26 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (19) He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. (20) I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not. (21) Thou art become cruel to me: with...

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• Job 30:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  When I looked for good ,.... As he thought he might reasonably expect it, since he had shown such a sympathizing spirit to persons in trouble, and such pity and mercy to the poor: in the time of his...

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• Job 30:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  When I looked for good, then evil came [unto me]: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. Ver. 26. When I looked for good ] According to that general rule, and the common course of God's...

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• Job 30:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Did not I weep for him that was in trouble Have I now judgment without mercy, because I afforded no mercy or pity to others in misery? No; my conscience acquits me from this inhumanity: I did mourn...

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• Job 30:26 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  MOCKED BY HIS INFERIORS (vv.1-8) What a contrast was Job's condition now! Prominent men of dignity had once shown Job every respect, but now young men of what might be considered the lowest clas...

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• Job 30:26 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Job Complains of His Affliction. B. C. 1520.       15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursu...

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• Job 30:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Instead of the return of the like pity to me, which I might justly challenge and expect whensoever I should stand in need of it, I meet with a sad disappointment, and my pity is recompensed with othe...

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• Job 30:26 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  THE CONTRAST.—JOB’S SOLILOQUY, CONTINUED With his former state of happiness and honour Job now contrasts his present misery and degradation. His object as well to show the grounds he has for com...

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• Job 30:26 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 30:1 . The dogs of my flock. Job does not say this through pride, for he owns that the slave and himself were formed by the same hand: Job 31:15 . He says it rather with a view to describe th...

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• Job 30:26 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 30:1-18 The contrast is now completed. Having drawn the portrait of himself as he was, rich, honoured, blessed with children, flourishing, in favour with both God and man, Jo...

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• Job 30:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Unspeakable Misery and Disappointment with which Job Battled

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• Job 30:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Isaiah 50:10 ; Jeremiah 14:19 ; Jeremiah 15:18 ; Jeremiah 8:15 ; Job 18:18 ; Job 18:6 ; Job 23:17 ; Job 29:18 ; Job 3:25 ; Job 3:26 ; Micah 1:12 ; Psalms 97:11

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• Job 30:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Upon me — Yet trouble came upon myself, when I expected it not.

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