Job 5:14
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.”
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BSBPD
“They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“By day they meet darkness, And as night--they grope at noon.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 5:14 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 10:21Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness.”
- Exodus 10:22So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and total darkness covered all the land of Egypt for three days.
- Deuteronomy 28:29and 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.
- Job 12:25They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.
- Proverbs 4:19But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
- Isaiah 59:10Like 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.
- Amos 8:9And 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.
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