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Job 5:14
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They encounter darkness by day,and they grope at noonas if it were night.
They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night.
Darkness covers them up in the daytime; even at noon they feel around in the dark.
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.
"By day they meet with darkness, And grope at noon as in the night.
They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
They meete with darkenesse in the day time, and grope at noone day, as in the night.
By day they meet with darknessAnd grope at noon as in the night.
They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
Darkness is their only companion, hiding their path at noon.
They meet with darkness during the day, groping at noon like at night.
They meet with darkness in a the daytime, and grope at midday as in the night.
Daylight will be like darkness for them. Even at noon they will have to feel their way as in the dark.
They handle things in the daytime as though they were in darkness, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
even at noon they grope in darkness.
In the daytime they meet with darkness, and they grope at noon as in the night.
They meet with darkness by day, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
In so moch that they runne in to darcknesse by fayre daye, and grope aboute them at the noone daye, like as in the night.
They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.
They runne into darknesse by fayre day, and grope at the noone day as in the night.
They meet with darkness in the day-time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
They meete with darkenesse in the day time, and grope in the noone day as in the night.
In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noon-day even as in the night:
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.
Bi dai thei schulen renne in to derknessis, and as in nyyt so thei schulen grope in myddai.
They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
They meet with darkness in the day-time, and grope in the noon-day as in the night.
They meet with darkness in the daytime, And grope at noontime as in the night.
They find it is dark in the daytime, and they grope at noon as if it were night.
They meet with darkness during the day, and feel their way at noon as in the night.
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.
By day, they encounter darkness, and, as though it were night, they grope at high noon.
They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night.
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.
By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.
"By day they meet with darkness, And grope at noon as in the night.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
meet with: or, run into
darkness: Job 12:25, Deuteronomy 28:29, Proverbs 4:19, Isaiah 59:10, Amos 8:9
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 19:10 - he slipped 2 Kings 6:18 - Smite this people Job 38:15 - from Habakkuk 2:13 - is it
Gill's Notes on the Bible
They meet with darkness in the daytime,.... Which may denote their infatuation in things the most plain and clear, and which are obvious to everyone's view, even to such as are of much meaner capacities the themselves; and so it sometimes is, that the greatest politicians, men of the greatest sagacity and penetration, capable of forming and conducting the wisest counsels, yet blunder in things plain and easy to everyone; which must be imputed to their being given up to a judicial blindness of mind by the Lord, who destroys the wisdom of the wise, and brings to nothing the understanding of the prudent; or this may signify the defeat of their counsels, when they are in the highest pitch of esteem among men, as Ahithophel's counsel was as the oracle of God; or the destruction of such persons and their schemes when they are in the meridian of their glory, who being in high and slippery places, come to desolation in a moment:
and grope in the noon day as in the night; which intends the same as before; this was threatened to the Jews in case of disobedience, and was fulfilled in them, Deuteronomy 28:29; a learned man renders it, "as the night they grope", or "feel, at noon day" t; as the Egyptians felt darkness when it was noon, and when light was in all the dwellings of the Israelites, Exodus 10:22; this may be applied to the case of many in a land of Gospel light, who are in darkness, walk in darkness, and are darkness itself; though the light of the glorious Gospel shines all around them on others, and know no more of divine and spiritual things than the Gentiles, but grope or feel about like persons blind, and in the dark as much as they, Acts 17:27; nay, they not only have the great things of the Gospel hid from them, and Satan blinds their minds lest this light should shine into them, but "they run into darkness" u, as the words of the first clause may be rendered; those "lucifugae", such as the Jews were, and the Deists now are run from the light of divine revelation, and love darkness, and which is the aggravation of their condemnation, John 3:19.
t כלילה ימששו "tanquam noctum palpant", Schultens. u יפנשו "incurrent", V. L. "incurrunt", Vatablus, Mercerus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
They meet with darkness in the day-time - Margin, “run into;” compare the notes at Isaiah 59:10. The sense is, that where there is really no obstacle to the accomplishment of an honest plan - any more than there is for a man to walk in the day-time - they become perplexed and embarrassed, as much as a man would be, should sudden darkness come around him at mid-day. The same sentiment occurs in Job 12:25. A life of honesty and uprightness will be attended with prosperity, but a man who attempts to carry his plans by trick and art, will meet with unexpected embarrassments. The sentiment in all these expressions is, that God embarrasses the cunning, the crafty, and the artful, but gives success to those who are upright; and that, therefore, he is worthy of confidence.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 5:14. They meet with darkness in the daytime — God confounds them and their measures; and, with all their cunning and dexterity, they are outwitted, and often act on their own projects, planned with care and skill, as if they had been the crudest conceptions of the most disordered minds. They act in noonday as if the sun were extinct, and their eyes put out. Thus does God "abate their pride, assuage their malice, and confound their devices."
