26 When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.
Looking for peace -- and there is no good, For a time of healing, and lo, terror.
For a fear I feared and it meeteth me, And what I was afraid of doth come to me. I was not safe -- nor was I quiet -- Nor was I at rest -- and trouble cometh!
The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.
For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.
And I say, `With my nest I expire, And as the sand I multiply days.'
Who `is' among you, fearing Jehovah, Hearkening to the voice of His servant, That hath walked in dark places, And there is no brightness for him? Let him trust in the name of Jehovah, And lean upon his God.
Why hath my pain been perpetual? And my wound incurable? It hath refused to be healed, Thou art surely to me as a failing stream, Waters not stedfast.
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Commentary on Job 30 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 30
It is a melancholy "But now' which this chapter begins with. Adversity is here described as much to the life as prosperity was in the foregoing chapter, and the height of that did but increase the depth of this. God sets the one over-against the other, and so did Job, that his afflictions might appear the more grievous, and consequently his case the more pitiable.
Job 30:1-14
Here Job makes a very large and sad complaint of the great disgrace he had fallen into, from the height of honour and reputation, which was exceedingly grievous and cutting to such an ingenuous spirit as Job's was. Two things he insists upon as greatly aggravating his affliction:-
Job 30:15-31
In this second part of Job's complaint, which is very bitter, and has a great many sorrowful accents in it, we may observe a great deal that he complains of and some little that he comforts himself with.