Christian Standard Bible
Job 5:14
14They encounter darkness by day, and they grope at noon as if it were night.
Job 5:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
- New International Version (NIV)Darkness comes upon them in the daytime; at noon they grope as in the night.
- English Standard Version (ESV)They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night.
- New King James Version (NKJV)They meet with darkness in the daytime, And grope at noontime as in the night.
Context of Job 5:14
12He frustrates the schemes of the crafty so that they achieve no success. 13He traps the wise in their craftiness so that the plans of the deceptive are quickly brought to an end. They encounter darkness by day, and they grope at noon as if it were night. 15He saves the needy from their sharp words and from the clutches of the powerful. 16So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
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יוֹמָ֥ם יְפַגְּשׁוּ־חֹ֑שֶׁךְ וְ֝כַלַּ֗יְלָה יְֽמַשְׁשׁ֥וּ בַֽצָּהֳרָֽיִם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 5:14
- Job 12:25They grope around in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like a drunkard.
- Deuteronomy 28:29so that at noon you will grope as a blind person gropes in the dark. You will not be successful in anything you do. You will only be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will help you.
- Proverbs 4:19But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they don’t know what makes them stumble.
- Isaiah 59:10We grope along a wall like the blind; we grope like those without eyes. We stumble at noon as though it were twilight; we are like the dead among those who are healthy.
- Amos 8:9And in that day — this is the declaration of the Lord God — I will make the sun go down at noon; I will darken the land in the daytime.
Commentaries on Job 5:14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14They 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."Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14They 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…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-16Verses 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, and therefore born to trouble…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-16Eliphaz praised God as the creator and and the one who sustains the universe who performs wonders (5:9–10). He also praised God as the righteous judge who humbles the powerful and honors poor people (5:11–16).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. Judicial blindness often is sent upon keen men of the world (De 28:29; Is 59:10; Joh 9:39).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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