Charles Ellicott Commentary Job 30:26

"When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness." — Job 30:26 (ASV)

When I looked for good. —Before, in Job 3:25-26, he had spoken as one who did not wish to be the fool of prosperity, and so overtaken unawares by calamity, and who therefore looked at things on the darker side; now he speaks as one who hoped for the best, and yet, notwithstanding that hope, was disappointed and deceived.