God’s Word Translation
Job 5:14
14In the daytime they meet darkness and grope in the sunlight 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 keeps shrewd people from carrying out their plans so that they cannot do anything successfully. 13He catches the wise with their own tricks. The plans of schemers prove to be hasty. In the daytime they meet darkness and grope in the sunlight as if it were night. 15“But he saves ⌞other people⌟ from their slander and the needy from the power of the mighty. 16Then the poor have hope while wrongdoing shuts its mouth.
Read all of Job 5Job 5:14 word by word
יוֹמָ֥ם יְפַגְּשׁוּ־חֹ֑שֶׁךְ וְ֝כַלַּ֗יְלָה יְֽמַשְׁשׁ֥וּ בַֽצָּהֳרָֽיִם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 5:14
- Job 12:25They grope in the dark with no light, and he makes them stumble like drunks.
- Deuteronomy 28:29You will grope in broad daylight as blind people grope in their blindness. You won’t be successful in anything you do. As long as you live, you will be oppressed and robbed with no one to rescue you.
- Proverbs 4:19The way of wicked people is like deep darkness. They do not know what makes them stumble.
- Isaiah 59:10We grope like blind men along a wall. We grope like people without eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were twilight. We are like dead people among healthy people.
- Amos 8:9On that day, declares the Almighty Lord, I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.
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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