Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday 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.
Amplified
“In the daytime they meet in darkness,
And at noon they grope 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 taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong. 14 They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night. 15 But he saveth from the sword of their mouth, Even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
Names
Cross References
Job 12:25
They grope in the dark without light; And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
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 robbed alway, and there shall be none to save thee.
Isaiah 59:10
We grope for the wall like the blind; yea, we grope as they that have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty we are as dead men.
Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.
Amos 8:9
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.