Cross references

Job 30:26

But when I hoped for good, evil came;

when I looked for light, darkness fell.

Job 30:26 BSB

Job 30:26 has 12 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Jeremiah 8:15 (12 votes) and Job 3:25–26 (5 votes). 12 other verses point back to it. It links with 6 other books, from 2 Kings 2 to Micah 1.

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Which verses does Job 30:26 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

  2. For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me. I am not at ease or quiet; I have no rest, for trouble has come.”

  3. Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.

  4. Job 18:63 votes

    The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.

  5. Job 19:83 votes

    He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.

  6. Job 23:173 votes

    Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

  7. Light shines on the righteous, gladness on the upright in heart.

  8. Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of His Servant? Who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD; let him lean on his God.

  9. Micah 1:123 votes

    For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.

  10. Job 18:182 votes

    He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

  11. Job 29:182 votes

Which verses point to Job 30:26?

The 10 strongest of 12.