Job 5:14
They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
In Context
13Who catcheth the wise in their craftiness, and disappointeth the counsel of the wicked:
Cross References
Exodus 10:21And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch out they hand towards heaven: and may there be darkness upon the land of Egypt, so thick that it may be felt.
Deuteronomy 28:29And mayst thou grope at midday as the blind is wont to grope in the dark, and not make straight thy ways. And mayst thou at all times suffer wrong, and be oppressed with violence, and mayst thou have no one to deliver thee.
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall.
Amos 8:9And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that the sun shall go down at midday, and I will make the earth dark in 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 →