Job 5:14
They will encounter darkness in the daytime, and they will grope at midday just as in the night.
Catholic Public Domain 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 catches the wise in their cleverness and dissipates the counsel of the perverse.
Cross References
Exodus 10:21Then the Lord said to Moses: “Extend your hand into the sky. And let there be a darkness over the land of Egypt, so dense that they may be able to feel it.”
Deuteronomy 28:29And may you grope at midday, just as a blind man is accustomed to grope in darkness, and may your paths not be straight. And at all times may you suffer slander and be oppressed with violence, and may you have no one who may free you.
Proverbs 4:19The way of the impious is darkened. They do not know where they may fall.
Amos 8:9And it will be in that day, says the Lord God, that the sun will decline at midday, and I will cause the earth to become dark on the day of light.
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 →