Job 5 · Verse 14

Job 5:14

They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
Job 5:14, King James Version

Job 5:14 in other translations

BSBThey encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
WEBThey meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
ASVThey meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
YLTBy day they meet darkness, And as night--they grope at noon.
DARBYThey meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as in the night.
BBEIn the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.
WebsterThey meet with darkness in the day-time, and grope in the noon-day as in the night.

What does Job 5:14 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
14. Judicial blindness often is sent upon keen men of the world (De 28:29; Is 59:10; Joh 9:39).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 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."

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 5:6-16

Eliphaz reminds Job, that no affliction comes by chance, nor is to be placed to second causes. The difference between prosperity and adversity is not so exactly observed, as that between day and night, summer and winter; but it is according to the will and counsel of God. We must not attribute our afflictions to fortune, for they are from God; nor our sins to fate, for they are from ourselves. Man is born in sin…

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Job 5:14 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

יוֹמָ֥םyo.Mamby dayH3119
יְפַגְּשׁוּ\־ye.fa.ge.shu-they meetH6298
חֹ֑שֶׁךְCho.shekhdarknessH2822
וְ֝כַלַּ֗יְלָהve.kha.Lay.lahand like <the> nightH3915
יְֽמַשְׁשׁ֥וּye.mash.Shuthey gropeH4959
בַֽצָּהֳרָֽיִם\׃Va.tzo.ho.Ra.yimat <the> noon<s>H6672

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Cross references for Job 5:14

  • Job 12:25

    They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

  • Deuteronomy 28:29

    And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.

  • Isaiah 59:10

    We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

  • Proverbs 4:19

    The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

  • Amos 8:9

    And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
meet with. or, run into. darkness.
12:25; De 28:29; Pr 4:19; Isa 59:10; Am 8:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 5:13

    He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

  • Job 5:14

    They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

  • Job 5:15

    But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

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Job 5:14 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		De día se topan con tinieblas, y en mitad del día andan á tientas como de noche:
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		De jour, ils rencontrent les ténèbres, et en plein midi ils marchent à tâtons, comme de nuit.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Bei Tage stoßen sie auf Finsternis, und am Mittag tappen sie wie bei der Nacht.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Per diem incurrent tenebras, et quasi in nocte, sic palpabunt in meridie.