Job 5:14 · KJV
“They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. {meet...: or, run into}”
— Job 5:14
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
Job 5 — Context
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform {their} enterprise. {their enterprise: or, any thing}
13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. {meet...: or, run into}
15But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
16So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
Cross References
Job 12:25
They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like {a} drunken {man}. {stagger: Heb. wander}
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 spoiled evermore, and no man shall save {thee}.
Isaiah 59:10
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if {we had} no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; {we are} in desolate places 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 GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day: