Parallel Verses
Amplified
“In the daytime they meet in darkness,
And at noon they grope as in the night.
New American Standard Bible
And grope at noon as in the night.
King James Version
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
Holman Bible
and they grope at noon
as if it were night.
International Standard Version
They meet with darkness in broad daylight; at noonday they grope around as if it were night.
A Conservative Version
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.
American Standard Version
They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
Bible in Basic English
In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.
Darby Translation
They meet with darkness in a the daytime, and grope at midday as in the night.
Julia Smith Translation
The days they will meet darkness, and they will grope in the noon day as night
King James 2000
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
Lexham Expanded Bible
In the daytime they meet [with] darkness, and they grope at noon as [in] the night.
Modern King James verseion
They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Insomuch that they run into darkness by fair day, and grope about them at the noonday, like as in the night.
NET Bible
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.
New Heart English Bible
They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
The Emphasized Bible
By day, they encounter darkness, and, as though it were night, they grope at high noon.
Webster
They meet with darkness in the day-time, and grope in the noon-day as in the night.
World English Bible
They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
Youngs Literal Translation
By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.
Interlinear
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 5:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eliphaz's Response Continues
13
“He catches the [so-called] wise in their own shrewdness,
And the advice of the devious is quickly thwarted.
“In the daytime they meet in darkness,
And at noon they grope as in the night.
“But God saves [the innocent] from the sword of the mouth of the devious,
And the poor from the hand of the mighty.
Names
Cross References
Job 12:25
“They grope in darkness without light,
And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.”
Deuteronomy 28:29
and you will be groping at noon [in broad daylight], just as the blind grope in the darkness, and nothing you do will prosper; but you will only be oppressed and exploited and robbed continually, with no one to save you.
Isaiah 59:10
We grope for a wall like the blind,
We grope like those who have no eyes.
We stumble at midday as in the twilight;
Among those who are healthy we are like dead men.
Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked is like [deep] darkness;
They do not know over what they stumble.
Amos 8:9
“It shall come about in that day,” says the Lord God,
“That I shall cause the sun to go down at noon,
And I shall darken the earth in broad daylight.