Job 5:14
They meet with darkness in the daytime; They grope at noon as if it were night.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
In Context
13Who taketh the wise in their own craftiness, And bringeth to nought the counsel of the artful.
15So he saveth the persecuted from their mouth; The oppressed from the hand of the mighty.
Cross References
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is as thick darkness; They know not at what they stumble.
Amos 8:9It shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah, That I will cause the sun to go down at noon, And will darken the land in the clear 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 →