26 When I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came.
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Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Job 30:26. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
Panels
5
Word Entries
47
Editorial Notes
0
How to read this study data
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Westminster Leningrad Codex
Hebrew · Hebrew Bible · Public Domain
Coverage: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
Primary Hebrew source-text witness for the Hebrew Bible.
כִּ֤י ט֣וֹב קִ֭וִּיתִי וַיָּ֣בֹא רָ֑ע וַֽאֲיַחֲלָ֥ה לְ֝א֗וֹר וַיָּ֥בֹא אֹֽפֶל׃
9 word entries
כִּ֤י
קִ֭וִּיתִי
וַיָּ֣בֹא
וַֽאֲיַחֲלָ֥ה
לְ֝א֗וֹר
וַיָּ֥בֹא
Greek Brenton Septuagint
Greek · Septuagint / Brenton Greek tradition · Public Domain
Coverage: Old Testament and Apocrypha where imported
Ancient Greek translation tradition. Every imported LXX token is classified with confidence labels; rare/generated forms remain needs-review rather than hand-verified scholarship.
ἐγὼ δὲ ἐπέχων ἀγαθοῖς, ἰδοὺ συνήντησάν μοι μᾶλλον ἡμέραι κακῶν.
10 word entries
ἐγὼ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ἐγώ
- Transliteration
- ego
- Morphology
- pronoun, nominative first-person singular
- Gloss
- I
- Part of Speech
- pronoun
- Definition
- First-person personal pronoun.
- Occurrences
- 11445
δὲ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- δέ
- Transliteration
- de
- Morphology
- postpositive conjunction/particle
- Gloss
- but, and, now
- Part of Speech
- conjunction/particle
- Definition
- Postpositive connective conjunction.
- Occurrences
- 4634
ἐπέχων
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- low
- Confidence note
- Rare-form generated LXX morphology pattern. This improves coverage and searchability, but should be treated as low-confidence until reviewed against the verse context.
- Lemma
- ἐπέχων
- Transliteration
- epechon
- Morphology
- Greek -ων form; often genitive plural noun/adjective or nominative masculine participle
- Gloss
- of ... / being ...
- Part of Speech
- participle/noun form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 2
ἀγαθοῖς
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- ἀγαθοῖς
- Transliteration
- agathois
- Morphology
- dative plural masculine/neuter pattern
- Gloss
- to/for ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 36
ἰδοὺ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ἰδού
- Transliteration
- idou
- Morphology
- interjection/particle
- Gloss
- behold, look
- Part of Speech
- particle/interjection
- Definition
- Attention marker or interjection.
- Occurrences
- 1077
συνήντησάν
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- low
- Confidence note
- Rare-form generated LXX morphology pattern. This improves coverage and searchability, but should be treated as low-confidence until reviewed against the verse context.
- Lemma
- συνήντησάν
- Transliteration
- synentesan
- Morphology
- verb, aorist active indicative, 3rd plural pattern
- Gloss
- they ...
- Part of Speech
- verb
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 2
μοι
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ἐγώ
- Transliteration
- ego
- Morphology
- pronoun, nominative first-person singular
- Gloss
- I
- Part of Speech
- pronoun
- Definition
- First-person personal pronoun.
- Occurrences
- 11445
μᾶλλον
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- μᾶλλον
- Transliteration
- mallon
- Morphology
- comparative adverb
- Gloss
- more, rather
- Part of Speech
- adverb
- Definition
- More, rather, to a greater degree.
- Occurrences
- 40
ἡμέραι
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ἡμέρα
- Transliteration
- hemera
- Morphology
- noun, feminine nominative singular
- Gloss
- day
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- Day.
- Occurrences
- 2366
κακῶν
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- κακός
- Transliteration
- kakon
- Morphology
- adjective, masculine/feminine/neuter genitive plural
- Gloss
- of evil things; evil
- Part of Speech
- adjective
- Definition
- Bad, evil, harmful, or wicked.
- Occurrences
- 242
Syriac Peshitta Old Testament
Syriac · Syriac Peshitta · MIT License
Coverage: Old Testament and selected Apocrypha
Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.
ܣܟܝܬ ܠܛܒܬܐ ܘܐܬܬ ܒܝܫܬܐ ܣܟܝܬ ܠܢܘܗܪܐ ܘܐܬܐ ܥܡܛܢܐ
8 word entries
ܣܟܝܬ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܣܟܝܬ
- Transliteration
- skyt
- Morphology
- possible feminine singular, construct, or verbal ending
- Occurrences
- 12
ܠܛܒܬܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܠܛܒܬܐ
- Transliteration
- ltbt'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 10
ܘܐܬܬ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܘܐܬܬ
- Transliteration
- w'tt
- Morphology
- possible feminine singular, construct, or verbal ending; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 24
ܒܝܫܬܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܒܝܫܬܐ
- Transliteration
- bysht'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed preposition b-
- Occurrences
- 352
ܣܟܝܬ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܣܟܝܬ
- Transliteration
- skyt
- Morphology
- possible feminine singular, construct, or verbal ending
- Occurrences
- 12
ܠܢܘܗܪܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܠܢܘܗܪܐ
- Transliteration
- lnwhr'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 13
ܘܐܬܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܘܐܬܐ
- Transliteration
- w't'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 171
ܥܡܛܢܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܥܡܛܢܐ
- Transliteration
- 'mtn'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 3
Targumim on Prophets and Writings
Aramaic · Targum Jonathan and Writings Targumim · Public Domain
Coverage: Prophets, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Megillot, and Chronicles. Torah Onkelos excluded pending commercial-safe licensing.
Jewish Aramaic interpretive translation tradition. Use as a Targum witness, not as a one-for-one original-language replacement.
אֲרוּם טָב סִבְרֵית וַאֲתָא בִישׁ וְאוֹרִיכֵת לִנְהוֹרָא וַאֲתָא קִבְלָא׃
9 word entries
אֲרוּם
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- ארום
- Transliteration
- 'rwm
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 997
טָב
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- טב
- Transliteration
- tb
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 212
סִבְרֵית
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- סברית
- Transliteration
- sbryt
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 15
וַאֲתָא
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- אתא
- Transliteration
- w't'
- Morphology
- prefixed conjunction ו + verbal root אתא
- Gloss
- and came
- Occurrences
- 341
בִישׁ
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- ביש
- Transliteration
- bysh
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 184
וְאוֹרִיכֵת
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- אוריכת
- Transliteration
- w'wrykt
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 2
לִנְהוֹרָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- נהורא
- Transliteration
- lnhwr'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 35
וַאֲתָא
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- אתא
- Transliteration
- w't'
- Morphology
- prefixed conjunction ו + verbal root אתא
- Gloss
- and came
- Occurrences
- 341
קִבְלָא׃
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- קבלא
- Transliteration
- qbl'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 104
Latin Vulgate Clementine
Latin · Latin Vulgate · Public Domain text; CC BY-SA 4.0 morphology
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Expectabam bona, et venerunt mihi mala: præstolabar lucem, et eruperunt tenebræ.
11 word entries
expectabam
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- exspecto
- Transliteration
- expectabam
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 123
bona
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- bonus
- Transliteration
- bona
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 847
et
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- et
- Transliteration
- et
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Gloss
- and
- Part of Speech
- conjunction
- Definition
- and, also, even
- Etymology
- Basic Latin coordinating conjunction.
- Occurrences
- 50526
venerunt
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- uenio
- Transliteration
- venerunt
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 2233
mihi
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- ego
- Transliteration
- mihi
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 6108
mala
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- malum
- Transliteration
- mala
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 129
praestolabar
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- praestolor
- Transliteration
- praestolabar
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 10
lucem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- lux
- Transliteration
- lucem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 154
et
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- et
- Transliteration
- et
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Gloss
- and
- Part of Speech
- conjunction
- Definition
- and, also, even
- Etymology
- Basic Latin coordinating conjunction.
- Occurrences
- 50526
eruperunt
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- erumpo
- Transliteration
- eruperunt
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 28
tenebrae
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- tenebrae
- Transliteration
- tenebrae
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 162
Ranked cross references
Connections are ranked by community votes in the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0). They suggest related themes, words, events, or people; they are not automatic interpretations.
Jeremiah 8:15
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
12 relevance votesJeremiah 14:19
Have you utterly rejected Judah? Has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
5 relevance votesPsalms 97:11
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
3 relevance votesIsaiah 50:10
Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.
3 relevance votesMicah 1:12
For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.
3 relevance votesJob 23:17
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
3 relevance votesJob 18:6
The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.
3 relevance votesJob 19:8
He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
3 relevance votesJeremiah 15:18
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?
2 relevance votesJob 18:18
He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
2 relevance votesJob 29:18
Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.
2 relevance votes