Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
By day, they encounter darkness, and, as though it were night, they grope at high noon.
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.
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.
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 Who captureth the wise in their own craftiness, yea the headlong counsel of the crooked: 14 By day, they encounter darkness, and, as though it were night, they grope at high noon. 15 But he saveth from the sword, out of their mouth, and, out of the hand of the strong, the needy.
Names
Cross References
Job 12:25
They grope about in the dark, having no light, and He hath made them to reel, like a drunken man.
Deuteronomy 28:29
and thou shalt he groping about in noonday brightness, as the blind man gropeth in thick darkness, and thou shalt not make thy ways prosper, - but shalt be only oppressed and spoiled all the days with none to save.
Isaiah 59:10
We grope, as blind men for a wall, Yea, as men without eyes, do we grope, - We have stumbled at broad noon as though it were twilight, In desolate places like the dead!
Proverbs 4:19
The way of the lawless, is like darkness, they know not, at what they stumble.
Amos 8:9
Yea it shall come to pass, in that day, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, that I will cause the sun to go in at high noon, - and will darken the earth on a day of brightness.!