Eliphaz Continues: God Blesses those Who Seek Him
Job 5:14
In 11 translations
- BSB
- They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
- KJV
- They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.meet…: or, run into
- WEB
- They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
- ASV
- They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
- LSV
- By day they meet darkness, || And as night—they grope at noon.
- YLT
- By day they meet darkness, And as night — they grope at noon.
- DBY
- They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as in the night.
- DRC
- They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night.
- GNV
- They meete with darkenesse in the day time, and grope at noone day, as in the night.
- JPS
- They meet with darkness in the day-time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
- LXXE
- In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noon-day even as in the night:
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- יוֹמָ֥ם יְפַגְּשׁוּ־חֹ֑שֶׁךְ וְ֝כַלַּ֗יְלָה יְֽמַשְׁשׁ֥וּ בַֽצָּהֳרָֽיִם׃
- LXX-Br
- Ἡμέρας συναντήσεται αὐτοῖς σκότος, τὸ δὲ μεσημβρινὸν ψηλαφήσαισαν ἶσα νυκτὶ,
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
EliphazDark; DarknessEliphaz (2)PhilosophyPapyrusPresumptionRighteousFaithWicked (People)Afflictions and Adversities
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Cross-references most cited first
- Job 12:25They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.
- Isaiah 59:10Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.
- Deuteronomy 28:29and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.
- Proverbs 4:19But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
- Amos 8:9And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
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