Job 5:14
By day, they encounter darkness, and, as though it were night, they grope at high noon.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
In Context
13Who captureth the wise in their own craftiness, yea the headlong counsel of the crooked:
15But he saveth from the sword, out of their mouth, and, out of the hand of the strong, the needy.
Cross References
Exodus 10:21Then said Yahweh unto Moses: Stretch forth thy hand over the heavens, that there may be darkness, over the land of Egypt,—and that one may feel the darkness.
Deuteronomy 28:29and thou shalt he groping about in noonday brightness, as the blind man gropeth in thick darkness, and thou shalt not make thy ways prosper,—but shalt be only oppressed and spoiled all the days with none to save.
Proverbs 4:19The way of the lawless, is like darkness, they know not, at what they stumble.
Amos 8:9Yea it shall come to pass, in that day, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, that I will cause the sun to go in at high noon,—and will darken the earth on a day of brightness.!
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 →