They grope in the dark without light; and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.
Job 5:14 - Revised Standard Version They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They meet with darkness in the daytime, And grope in the noonday as in the night. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition In the daytime they meet in darkness, and at noon they grope as in the night. American Standard Version (1901) They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night. Common English Bible They encounter darkness during the day, and at noon they fumble about as at night. Catholic Public Domain Version They will encounter darkness in the daytime, and they will grope at midday just as in the night. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night. |
They grope in the dark without light; and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.
he will not escape from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and his blossom will be swept away by the wind.
Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures; a fire not blown upon will devour him; what is left in his tent will be consumed.
your light is darkened, so that you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.
“There are those who rebel against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths.
From the wicked their light is withheld, and their uplifted arm is broken.
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt.”
So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days;
The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble.
We grope for the wall like the blind, we grope like those who have no eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among those in full vigor we are like dead men.
“And on that day,” says the Lord God, “I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the earth in broad daylight.
and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways; and you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you.