Job 5:14

By day they meet with darkness, and as though it were night they grope about in the noon of day;

Leeser Tanakh

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 own craftiness; and the advise of the perverse is hastened on headlong;

15But who saveth from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty, the needy one:

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Cross References

Exodus 10:21And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand toward heaven, and there shall be darkness over the land of Egypt, and it shall be a darkness of the night.

Deuteronomy 28:29And thou shalt grope about at noonday, as the blind gropeth about in the darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways; and thou shalt be only oppressed and robbed all the days, but with no one to help.

Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is like darkness: they know not against what they stumble.

Amos 8:9And it shall come to pass on that day, saith the Lord Eternal, that I will cause the sun to set at noon, and I will bring darkness over the earth on a bright 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 →

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