Holy Scripture
Job 30:26
A church father on this verse
“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 Ange…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
26But I, when I waited for good things, Behold, days of evils came the more upon me.
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24Oh then that I might lay hands upon myself, Or at least ask another, and he should do this for me.
25Yet I wept over every helpless man; I groaned when I saw a man in distress.
— Job 30:26 —
27My belly boiled, and would not cease: The days of poverty prevented me.
28I went mourning without restraint: And I have stood and cried out in the assembly.