Job 5:14

World English Bible (2000)

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. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
  • Isa 59:10 : 10 We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.
  • Deut 28:29 : 29 and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save you.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.
  • Amos 8:9 : 9 It will happen in that day," says the Lord Yahweh, "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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    13"These are of those who rebel against the light. They don't know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

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    15The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, 'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face.

    16In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

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  • Job 17:12
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    12They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

  • Job 12:25
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    25They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

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

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  • Job 5:13
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    13He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

  • Amos 5:20
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    20Won't the day of Yahweh 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. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

    5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

    6As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.

  • Deut 28:29
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    29and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save you.

  • Job 10:22
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    22the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"

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    14At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.

  • Isa 5:30
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    30They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

  • Isa 8:22
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    22and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"

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  • Job 15:23
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    23He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

  • Mic 3:6
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    6"Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

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    5They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

  • Job 3:9
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    9Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

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

  • John 11:10
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    10But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in him."

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    5"Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

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  • Ps 104:20
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    20You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

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    16Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

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    10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

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    8He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

  • Prov 4:16
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    18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

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  • Zech 14:6
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    6It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost.