New Living Translation
Job 5:14
14They find it is dark in the daytime, 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 plans of schemers so the work of their hands will not succeed. 13He traps the wise in their own cleverness so their cunning schemes are thwarted. They find it is dark in the daytime, and they grope at noon as if it were night. 15He rescues the poor from the cutting words of the strong, and rescues them from the clutches of the powerful. 16And so at last the poor have hope, and the snapping jaws of the wicked are shut.
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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 in the darkness without a light. He makes them stagger like drunkards.
- Deuteronomy 28:29You will grope around in broad daylight like a blind person groping in the darkness, but you will not find your way. You will be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will come to save you.
- Proverbs 4:19But the way of the wicked is like total darkness. They have no idea what they are stumbling over.
- Isaiah 59:10We grope like the blind along a wall, feeling our way like people without eyes. Even at brightest noontime, we stumble as though it were dark. Among the living, we are like the dead.
- Amos 8:9“In that day,” says the Sovereign Lord, “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth while it is still day.
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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