Job 5:14 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

In the daytime they meet darkness and grope in the sunlight as if it were night.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

DBY:

They meet with darkness in a the daytime, and grope at midday as in the night.

ERV:

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

JPS:

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

WBS:

They meet with darkness in the day-time, and grope in the noon-day as in the night.

WEB:

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

YLT:

By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.

Job 5:14 Cross References

XREF:

Job 12:25 "They grope in darkness with no light, And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

Job 15:30 "He will not escape from darkness; The flame will wither his shoots, And by the breath of His mouth he will go away.

Job 18:18 "He is driven from light into darkness, And chased from the inhabited world.

Job 20:26 Complete darkness is held in reserve for his treasures, And unfanned fire will devour him; It will consume the survivor in his tent.

Job 24:13 "Others have been with those who rebel against the light; They do not want to know its ways Nor abide in its paths. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

5:14 They meet with {n} darkness in the daytime, and {o} grope in the noonday as in the night.
(n) In things plain and evident they show themselves fools instead of wise men.
(o) This declares that God punishes the worldly wise as he threatened in De 28:29.

WES:

5:14 Meet - In plain things they run into gross mistakes, and chuse those courses which are worst for themselves. Darkness often notes misery, but here ignorance or error. Grope - Like blind men to find their way, not knowing what to do.

MHC:

5:6-16 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. There is nothing in this world we are born to, and can truly call our own, but sin and trouble. Actual transgressions are sparks that fly out of the furnace of original corruption. Such is the frailty of our bodies, and the vanity of all our enjoyments, that our troubles arise thence as the sparks fly upward; so many are they, and so fast does one follow another. Eliphaz reproves Job for not seeking God, instead of quarrelling with him. Is any afflicted? let him pray. It is heart's ease, a salve for every sore. Eliphaz speaks of rain, which we are apt to look upon as a little thing; but if we consider how it is produced, and what is produced by it, we shall see it to be a great work of power and goodness. Too often the great Author of all our comforts, and the manner in which they are conveyed to us, are not noticed, because they are received as things of course. In the ways of Providence, the experiences of some are encouragements to others, to hope the best in the worst of times; for it is the glory of God to send help to the helpless, and hope to the hopeless. And daring sinners are confounded, and forced to acknowledge the justice of God's proceedings.

CONC:

Becomes Dark Darkness Daytime Day-time Feeling Grope Meet Midday Noon Noonday Noon-day Sunlight

Dark Darkness Daytime Day-Time Feeling Grope Meet Midday Night Noon Noonday Noon-Day Sunlight Time

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