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Source language
JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH   
כי טוב קויתי ויבא רע ואיחלה לאור ויבא אפל
Hebrew - Transliteration via code library   
ky tvb qvyty vybA r` vAyKHlh lAvr vybA Apl

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
expectabam bona et venerunt mihi mala praestolabar lucem et eruperunt tenebrae

King James Variants
American King James Version   
When I looked for good, then evil came to me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Authorized (King James) Version   
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
New King James Version   
But when I looked for good, evil came to me; And when I waited for light, then came darkness.
21st Century King James Version   
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Other translations
American Standard Version   
When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Darby Bible Translation   
For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
When I looked for good, then evil came; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
But when I hoped for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came.
God's Word   
When I waited for good, evil came. When I looked for light, darkness came.
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness came.
International Standard Version   
I have hoped for good, but evil came instead; I have hoped for light, but darkness came.
NET Bible   
But when I hoped for good, trouble came; when I expected light, then darkness came.
New American Standard Bible   
"When I expected good, then evil came; When I waited for light, then darkness came.
New International Version   
Yet when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, then came darkness.
New Living Translation   
So I looked for good, but evil came instead. I waited for the light, but darkness fell.
Webster's Bible Translation   
When I looked for good, then evil came: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
The World English Bible   
When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.
EasyEnglish Bible   
But when I hoped for good things to happen, trouble came instead. When I looked for light to shine on me, everything became dark.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.
New Life Version   
When I expected good, then trouble came. When I waited for light, darkness came.
The Voice Bible   
And yet when I longed for the good, evil came; when I awaited the light, thick darkness arrived instead.
Living Bible   
I therefore looked for good to come. Evil came instead. I waited for the light. Darkness came.
New Catholic Bible   
Yet when I hoped for good, only evil came; when I looked for light, there was only darkness.
Legacy Standard Bible   
When I hoped for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, then thick darkness came.
Jubilee Bible 2000   
When I expected good, then evil came unto me; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Christian Standard Bible   
But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness came.
Amplified Bible © 1954   
But when I looked for good, then evil came to me; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
New Century Version   
But when I hoped for good, only evil came to me; when I looked for light, darkness came.
The Message   
“What did I do to deserve this? Did I ever hit anyone who was calling for help? Haven’t I wept for those who live a hard life, been heartsick over the lot of the poor? But where did it get me? I expected good but evil showed up. I looked for light but darkness fell. My stomach’s in a constant churning, never settles down. Each day confronts me with more suffering. I walk under a black cloud. The sun is gone. I stand in the congregation and protest. I howl with the jackals, I hoot with the owls. I’m black-and-blue all over, burning up with fever. My fiddle plays nothing but the blues; my mouth harp wails laments.”
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
But when I waited for good, evil came. When I hoped for light, darkness came.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
But when I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, darkness came.
Good News Translation®   
I hoped for happiness and light, but trouble and darkness came instead.
Wycliffe Bible   
I abode goods, and evils be come to me; I abode light, and darknesses brake out. (And I waited for good things, but only evil came to me; I waited for the light, but only darkness broke out.)
Contemporary English Version   
But when I beg for relief and light, all I receive are disaster and darkness.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
But when I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, darkness came.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
But when I looked for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
But when I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, darkness came.
Common English Bible © 2011   
for I awaited good, but evil came; I expected light, but gloom arrived.
Amplified Bible © 2015   
“When I expected good, then came evil [to me]; And when I waited for light, then came darkness.
English Standard Version Anglicised   
But when I hoped for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
Yet when I looked for good, evil came; when I expected light, darkness came.
New American Standard Bible   
When I expected good, evil came; When I waited for light, darkness came.
The Expanded Bible   
But when I hoped for ·good [or the best], only ·evil [or the worst] came to me; when I ·looked [waited] for light, darkness came.
Tree of Life Version   
Yet, when I hoped for good, evil came; when I waited for light, then darkness came.
Revised Standard Version   
But when I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, darkness came.
New International Reader's Version   
I hoped good things would happen, but something evil came. I looked for light, but all I saw was darkness.
BRG Bible   
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Complete Jewish Bible   
Yet when I hoped for good, what came was bad; when I expected light, what came was darkness.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
But when I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, darkness came.
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
When I looked for tov, then rah came unto me; and when I waited for ohr, there came ofel (darkness).
Names of God Bible   
When I waited for good, evil came. When I looked for light, darkness came.
Modern English Version   
When I looked for good, then evil disaster came upon me; and when I waited for light, darkness came.
Easy-to-Read Version   
But when I hoped for good, trouble came instead. When I looked for light, darkness came.
International Children’s Bible   
But when I hoped for good, only evil came to me. When I looked for light, darkness came.
Lexham English Bible   
Indeed, I hoped for good, but evil came, and I waited for light, but darkness came.
New International Version - UK   
Yet when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, then came darkness.