Job 5:14
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
In Context
13He takes the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
15But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
Cross References
Exodus 10:21And LORD said to Moses, Stretch out thy hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
Deuteronomy 28:29and thou shall grope at noonday, as the blind man gropes in darkness. And thou shall not prosper in thy ways. And thou shall only be oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save thee.
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is as darkness. They know not at what they stumble.
Amos 8:9And it shall come to pass in that day, says lord LORD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
Matthew Henry on Job 5:7-17
6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; 7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. 8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: 9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: 10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields: 11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. 12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their… Read the whole commentary →