Job 5:14

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 12:25 : 25 They feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to wander as a drunkard.
  • Isa 59:10 : 10 We feel like the blind `for' the wall, Yea, as without eyes we feel, We have stumbled at noon as at twilight, In desolate places as the dead.
  • Deut 28:29 : 29 and thou hast been gropling at noon, as the blind gropeth in darkness; and thou dost not cause thy ways to prosper; and thou hast been only oppressed and plundered all the days, and there is no saviour.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked `is' as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.
  • Amos 8:9 : 9 And it hath come to pass in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, I have caused the sun to go in at noon, And caused darkness on the land in a day of light,

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