Parallel Verses

NET Bible

They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.

New American Standard Bible

“By day they meet with darkness,
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

They encounter darkness by day,
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.

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
פּגשׁ 
Pagash 
Usage: 14

with darkness
חשׁך 
Choshek 
Usage: 78

in the daytime
יומם 
Yowmam 
Usage: 53

and grope
משׁשׁ 
Mashash 
Usage: 9

in the noonday
צהר 
Tsohar 
Usage: 24

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Eliphaz's Response Continues

13 He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is brought to a quick end. 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night. 15 So he saves from the sword that comes from their mouth, even the poor from the hand of the powerful.

Cross References

Job 12:25

They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.

Deuteronomy 28:29

You will feel your way along at noon like the blind person does in darkness and you will not succeed in anything you do; you will be constantly oppressed and continually robbed, with no one to save you.

Isaiah 59:10

We grope along the wall like the blind, we grope like those who cannot see; we stumble at noontime as if it were evening. Though others are strong, we are like dead men.

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what causes them to stumble.

Amos 8:9

In that day," says the sovereign Lord, "I will make the sun set at noon, and make the earth dark in the middle of the day.

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