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Job Chapter 5 verse 14 Holy Bible

ASV Job 5:14

They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
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BBE Job 5:14

In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.
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DARBY Job 5:14

They meet with darkness in a the daytime, and grope at midday as in the night.
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KJV Job 5:14

They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
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WBT Job 5:14

They meet with darkness in the day-time, and grope in the noon-day as in the night.
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WEB Job 5:14

They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
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YLT Job 5:14

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

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - They meet with darkness in the daytime (comp Deuteronomy 28:29 and Isaiah 59:10). The metaphor expresses the bewilderment of the crafty, when they find their schemes foiled, and all their subtlety of no avail. Suddenly their light goes out; they know not what to do, or which way to turn; "their way is hid" (Job 3:23); they are baffled, perplexed, confounded. And grope in the noonday as in the night (comp. Job 12:25). A variant form of the preceding hemistich.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) Darkness in the daytime.--This is possibly an allusion to the Egyptian plague of darkness "that may be felt" (Exodus 10:21), as the words used are similar. This may be a note of probable date. (Compare Isaiah 59:10, where the thoughts correspond, but the words differ.) This is one of the many passages of Job in which there seems to be an indication of some acquaintance with the events related in the Pentateuch, though the points of contact are too slight for us to be quite sure of it.