Job 5:14 KJV

They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

Matthew Henry

  • God is to be regarded in afflictionEliphaz reminds Job, that no affliction comes by chance, nor is to be placed to second causes. The difference between prosperity and adversity is not so...

Thompson Chains

Cross References

  • Job 12:25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
  • Deuteronomy 28:29 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 spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
  • Isaiah 59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
  • Proverbs 4:19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
  • Amos 8:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:

From OpenBible.info, most relevant first.

Topics

  • Afflictions and adversities Consolation in
  • Eliphaz 2. Friend of Job
  • Faith Eliphaz, in the overruling providence of God, that afflictions are for the good of the righteous
  • God Unclassified scriptures relating to
  • Job Complaints of, and replies by his three friends to

Strong’s Numbers

  • They meet פָּגַשׁ pâgash
  • with darkness חֹשֶׁךְ chôshek
  • in the daytime יוֹמָם yôwmâm
  • and grope מָשַׁשׁ mâshash
  • in the noonday צֹהַר tsôhar
  • as in the night לַיִל layil

Notes, marks, and bookmarks on this verse are in the KJV Bible app.