Job 30:26 — King James Version← Study notes

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

Job 30:26 — Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 30:269 words

HebrewMeaning

כִּ֤יkiy

ifconjH3588

+ (forasmuch · inasmuch · where-) as · assured ···

ט֣וֹבṭwōb

goodadjH2896

best · better · bountiful · cheerful ···

קִ֭וִּיתִיqiwiytiy

I waited forverbH6960

look · patiently · tarry · wait (for ···

וַ/יָּ֣בֹאwayābōʾ

and it cameconjH935

apply · attain · be · befall ···

רָ֑עrāʿ

eviladjH7451

affliction · bad · calamity · displease ···

וַֽ/אֲיַחֲלָ֥הwaʾăyaḥălāh

and I waitedconjH3176

have · make to) hope · be pained · stay ···

לְ֝/א֗וֹרləʾwōr

for lightpronH216

clear · day · light · morning ···

וַ/יָּ֥בֹאwayābōʾ

and it cameconjH935

apply · attain · be · befall ···

אֹֽפֶלʾōpel

darknessnounH652

obscurity · privily

ℹWords are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Job 30:26

When I looked for good, then evil came unto me; and when I waited for light, there broke forth darkness. For the faithful people ‘looks for good,’ but receives evil, and it ‘waits for light,’ and meets with ‘darkness,’ because by the grace of the recompensing it hopes to be now already admitted to the joys of the Angels, and yet being delayed for a longer time here below, it is exposed to the hands of those that persecute it; and he who calculates to enjoy as quickly as…
Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 20 §71

Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain

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