Job 5:14 “They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.”

Job 5:14

They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

World English Bible

They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

American Standard Version

They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.

Geneva Bible 1599

They meete with darkenesse in the day time, and grope at noone day, as in the night.

Darby Translation

They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as in the night.

Young's Literal Translation

By day they meet darkness, And as night — they grope at noon.

Bible in Basic English

In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

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Cross references

“darkness”

Job 12:25 Deuteronomy 28:29 Isaiah 59:10 Proverbs 4:19 Amos 8:9

Job 12:25 · BSB

They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.

Deuteronomy 28:29 · BSB

and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.

Isaiah 59:10 · BSB

Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.

Proverbs 4:19 · BSB

But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.

Amos 8:9 · BSB

And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

13He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.

15He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.

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