Job 5:14

12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

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

15 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
KJV
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
WEB
They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
ASV
They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
DARBY
They meet with darkness in a the daytime, and grope at midday as in the night.
BLB
By day they encounter darkness, and they grope about at midday as [at] night.
ÅB
om dagen støter de på mørke, og om middagen famler de som om natten.
OTB
Om dagen møter de mørke,
Og famler ved middagstid som om natten.
B1930
om dagen støter de på mørke, og om middagen famler de som om natten.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Job 12:25

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

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  • 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 spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.

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  • Isaiah 59:10

    We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

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  • Proverbs 4:19

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

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  • Amos 8:9

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

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