Job 5:14

Translations

Modern

They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.

Traditional

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

Literal

By day they encounter darkness, and they grope about at midday as at night.

Latin

Per diem incurrent tenebras, et quasi in nocte, sic palpabunt in meridie.

Original

Hebrew

English

They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.

Notes

Job 5:9–16

Eliphaz 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).

Events

Job's Trial

Related verses

Job 12:25
They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.
Deuteronomy 28:29
…and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.
Isaiah 59:10
Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.
Proverbs 4:19
But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
Amos 8:9
And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.

Glossary

Book of Job Darkness

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities: Consolation In Faith: Eliphaz, in the Overruling Providence of God, That Afflictions are for the Good of the Righteous God: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Philosophy: Philosophical Inductions and Deductions Relating to God and his Providence Righteous: Promises To, Expressed or Implied Wicked (People): Punishment of

Job 5:14

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