Job 5:14
In the daytime they're in the dark, and they stumble around at noon like it's night.
Free Bible 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 traps the wise in their own clever thinking, and the schemes of twisted people are cut short.
Cross References
Exodus 10:21The Lord told Moses, “Lift your hand toward the sky so that darkness will fall over Egypt, darkness so thick that it can be felt.”
Deuteronomy 28:29so that even at noon you will be groping around like a blind man in the dark. You won't be successful in what you do. You'll be persecuted and robbed the whole time, and no one will come and save you.
Proverbs 4:19But the way of life of the wicked is like complete darkness; they don't even know what they're tripping over.
Amos 8:9On that day, declares the Lord God, I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the land during the daytime.
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 →