Job 5:14

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 12:25 : 25 They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.
  • Isa 59:10 : 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.
  • Deut 28:29 : 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.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.
  • Amos 8:9 : 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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    13There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths.

    14Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.

    15And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking,‘No eye can see me,’ and covers his face with a mask.

    16In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

    17For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.

  • Job 17:12
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    12These men change night into day; they say,‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’

  • Job 12:25
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    25They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.

  • Isa 59:9-10
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    9Israel Confesses its Sin For this reason deliverance is far from us and salvation does not reach us. We wait for light, but see only darkness; we wait for a bright light, but live in deep darkness.

    10We 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.

  • Job 5:13
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    13He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is brought to a quick end.

  • Amos 5:20
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    20Don’t you realize the LORD’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light– gloomy blackness, not bright light?

  • Prov 7:9
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    9in the twilight, the evening, in the dark of the night.

  • Job 3:4-6
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    4That day– let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!

    5Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!

    6That night– let darkness seize it; let it not be included among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months!

  • Deut 28:29
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    29You 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.

  • Job 10:22
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    22to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

  • Isa 17:14
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    14In the evening there is sudden terror; by morning they vanish. This is the fate of those who try to plunder us, the destiny of those who try to loot us!

  • Isa 5:30
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    30At that time they will growl over their prey, it will sound like sea waves crashing against rocks. One will look out over the land and see the darkness of disaster, clouds will turn the light into darkness.

  • Isa 8:22
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    22When one looks out over the land, he sees distress and darkness, gloom and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11If I were to say,“Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,”

    12even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you.

  • Job 15:23
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    23he wanders about– food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.

  • Mic 3:6
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    6Therefore night will fall, and you will receive no visions; it will grow dark, and you will no longer be able to read the omens. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn to darkness over their heads.

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    5They neither know nor understand. They stumble around in the dark, while all the foundations of the earth crumble.

  • Job 3:9
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    9Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,

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    22There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.

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    2He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.

  • John 11:10
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    10But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

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    5“Yes, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; his flame of fire does not shine.

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  • Ps 104:20
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    20You make it dark and night comes, during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.

  • Jer 13:16
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    16Show the LORD your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile.

  • Job 22:11
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    11why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

  • Prov 2:13
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    13who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways,

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    4But you, brothers and sisters, are not in the darkness for the day to overtake you like a thief would.

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    6He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.

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    15Those who try to hide their plans from the LORD are as good as dead, who do their work in secret and boast,“Who sees us? Who knows what we’re doing?”

  • Eccl 5:17
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    17Surely, he ate in darkness every day of his life, and he suffered greatly with sickness and anger.

  • Ps 55:10
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    10Day and night they walk around on its walls, while wickedness and destruction are within it.

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    10They sat in utter darkness, bound in painful iron chains,

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    8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

  • Prov 4:16
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    16For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.

  • Job 18:18
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    18He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

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    26He strikes them for their wickedness, in a place where people can see,

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    10let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see, and make their backs bend continually.”

  • Zech 14:6
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    6On that day there will be no light– the sources of light in the heavens will congeal.