Devine Scripture

Job 5:14

Job chapter 5 · verse 14 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.

Context

v.13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

v.14This passage

v.15But he saveth from the sword of their mouth, Even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Proverbs 4:19

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

  • Job 12:25

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

  • Amos 8:9

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

  • Isaiah 59:10

    We grope for the wall like the blind; yea, we grope as they that have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty we are as dead men.

  • 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 robbed alway, and there shall be none to save thee.