Job 5:14

American Standard Version (1901)

They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 12:25 : 25 They grope in the dark without light; And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
  • Isa 59:10 : 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.
  • Deut 28:29 : 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.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.
  • Amos 8:9 : 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.

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    13These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, Nor abide in the paths thereof.

    14The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.

    15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, Saying, No eye shall see me: And he disguiseth his face.

    16In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.

    17For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

  • Job 17:12
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    12They change the night into day: The light, [say they], is near unto the darkness.

  • Job 12:25
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    25They grope in the dark without light; And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.

  • Isa 59:9-10
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    9Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

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    13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

  • Amos 5:20
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    20Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

  • Prov 7:9
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    9In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.

  • Job 3:4-6
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    4Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.

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  • Deut 28:29
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    29and 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.

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    22The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.

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    14At eventide, behold, terror; [and] before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that despoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

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    30And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold, darkness [and] distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof.

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    22and they shall look unto the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.

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    11If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, And the light about me shall be night;

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  • Job 15:23
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    23He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

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    2He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

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    10But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.

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