Job 5:14
By day they meet darkness, || And as night—they grope at noon.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
In Context
13Capturing the wise in their subtlety, || And the counsel of wrestling ones was hurried,
15He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth, || And from a strong hand,
Cross References
Exodus 10:21And YHWH says to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the heavens, and there is darkness over the land of Egypt, and the darkness is felt.”
Deuteronomy 28:29and you have been groping at noon, as the blind gropes in darkness; and you do not cause your ways to prosper; and you have been only oppressed and plundered [for] all the days, and there is no savior.
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked [is] as darkness, || They have not known at what they stumble.
Amos 8:9And it has come to pass in that day,” || A declaration of Lord YHWH, || “I have caused the sun to go in at noon, || And caused darkness on the land in a 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 →