Job 5:14
They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
KJV
Per diem incurrent tenebras, et quasi in nocte, sic palpabunt in meridie.
Vulgate
ἡμέρας συναντήσεται αὐτοῖς σκότος, τὸ δὲ μεσημβρινὸν ψηλαφήσαισαν ἴσα νυκτί.
LXX
They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
ASV
יוֹמָ֥ם יְפַגְּשׁוּ חֹ֑שֶׁךְ וְ֝/כַ/לַּ֗יְלָה יְֽמַשְׁשׁ֥וּ בַֽ/צָּהֳרָֽיִם
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
חֹ֔שֶׁךְ
chshk
noun · 80×
יוֹמָ֣ם
yvmm
noun · 50×
לָ֑יְלָה
lylh
noun · 234×
מְמַשֵּׁ֣שׁ
mmshsh
verb · 9×
נִפְגָּ֑שׁוּ
npgshv
verb · 14×
צָּהֳרָ֑יִם
tshrym
noun · 24×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 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:
- 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:
- Deut 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.
- Deut 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.
- Isa 59:10 — We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
- Isa 59:10 — We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
- Job 12:25 — They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
- Job 12:25 — They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
- Job 38:15 — And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
- Prov 4:19 — The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
- Prov 4:19 — The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.