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at noon they grope as in the night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/job/5.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />They find it is dark in the daytime, and they grope at noon as if it were night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/job/5.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/job/5.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/job/5.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/job/5.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />They meet with darkness in the daytime, And grope at noontime as in the night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/job/5.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“By day they meet with darkness, And grope at noon as in the night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/job/5.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220By day they meet with darkness, And grope at noon as in the night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/job/5.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“By day they meet with darkness, And grope at noon as in the night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/job/5.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />By day they meet with darkness And grope at noon as in the night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/job/5.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“In the daytime they meet in darkness, And at noon they grope as in the night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/job/5.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />They encounter darkness by day, and they grope at noon as if it were night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/job/5.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />They encounter darkness by day, and they grope at noon as if it were night. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/job/5.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/job/5.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Darkness is their only companion, hiding their path at noon. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/job/5.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/job/5.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />In the daytime they meet darkness and grope in the sunlight as if it were night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/job/5.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />even at noon they grope in darkness. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/job/5.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />They meet with darkness in broad daylight; at noonday they grope around as if it were night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/job/5.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/job/5.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/job/5.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/job/5.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />They meet with darkness in the day-time, and grope in the noon-day as in the night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/job/5.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/job/5.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />By day they meet darkness, "" And as night—they grope at noon.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/job/5.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/job/5.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />The days they will meet darkness, and they will grope in the noon day as night.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/job/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/job/5.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />They will encounter darkness in the daytime, and they will grope at midday just as in the night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/job/5.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />They meet with darkness in the daytime, at noonday they grope as though it were night. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/job/5.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/job/5.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />They handle things in the daytime as though they were in darkness, and grope in the noonday as in the night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/job/5.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />By day they will grope as when in darkness, and they will grope at noonday as at night<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/job/5.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/job/5.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noon-day even as in the night:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/job/5-14.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XAwuD5NuZq0?start=746" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/job/5.htm">Eliphaz Continues: God Blesses those who Seek Him</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">13</span>He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning. <span class="reftext">14</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/6298.htm" title="6298: yə·p̄ag·gə·šū- (V-Piel-Imperf-3mp) -- To meet, encounter. A primitive root; to come in contact with, whether by accident or violence; figuratively, to concur.">They encounter</a> <a href="/hebrew/2822.htm" title="2822: ḥō·šeḵ (N-ms) -- From chashak; the dark; hence darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness.">darkness</a> <a href="/hebrew/3119.htm" title="3119: yō·w·mām (Adv) -- Daytime, by day. From yowm; daily.">by day</a> <a href="/hebrew/4959.htm" title="4959: yə·maš·šū (V-Piel-Imperf-3mp) -- To feel, grope. A primitive root; to feel of; by implication, to grope.">and grope</a> <a href="/hebrew/6672.htm" title="6672: ḇaṣ·ṣā·ho·rā·yim (Prep-b, Art:: N-mp) -- A light, double light, noon. From tsahar; a light: dual double light, i.e. Noon.">at noon</a> <a href="/hebrew/3915.htm" title="3915: wə·ḵal·lay·lāh (Conj-w, Prep-k, Art:: N-ms) -- Night. Or leyl; also laylah; from the same as luwl; properly, a twist, i.e. Night; figuratively, adversity.">as in the night.</a> </span><span class="reftext">15</span>He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/59-10.htm">Isaiah 59:10</a></span><br />Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/28-29.htm">Deuteronomy 28:29</a></span><br />and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/4-19.htm">Proverbs 4:19</a></span><br />But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/8-22.htm">Isaiah 8:22</a></span><br />Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/29-9.htm">Isaiah 29:9-10</a></span><br />Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink. / For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/42-16.htm">Isaiah 42:16</a></span><br />I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/13-16.htm">Jeremiah 13:16</a></span><br />Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/3-6.htm">Micah 3:6</a></span><br />Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zephaniah/1-17.htm">Zephaniah 1:17</a></span><br />I will bring such distress on mankind that they will walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/82-5.htm">Psalm 82:5</a></span><br />They do not know or understand; they wander in the darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/107-10.htm">Psalm 107:10</a></span><br />Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/12-35.htm">John 12:35</a></span><br />Then Jesus told them, “For a little while longer, the Light will be among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/15-14.htm">Matthew 15:14</a></span><br />Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/1-79.htm">Luke 1:79</a></span><br />to shine on those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/1-21.htm">Romans 1:21</a></span><br />For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.</p><p class="hdg">meet with.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/job/12-25.htm">Job 12:25</a></b></br> They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like <i>a</i> drunken <i>man</i>.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/28-29.htm">Deuteronomy 28:29</a></b></br> 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 <i>thee</i>.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/proverbs/4-19.htm">Proverbs 4:19</a></b></br> The way of the wicked <i>is</i> as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/job/3-9.htm">Dark</a> <a href="/job/3-6.htm">Darkness</a> <a href="/numbers/9-21.htm">Daytime</a> <a href="/numbers/14-14.htm">Day-Time</a> <a href="/1_samuel/20-12.htm">Feeling</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/28-29.htm">Grope</a> <a href="/job/3-12.htm">Meet</a> <a href="/nehemiah/8-3.htm">Midday</a> <a href="/job/4-13.htm">Night</a> <a href="/2_kings/4-20.htm">Noon</a> <a href="/2_samuel/4-5.htm">Noonday</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/28-29.htm">Noon-Day</a> <a href="/revelation/22-5.htm">Sunlight</a> <a href="/job/3-11.htm">Time</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/job/6-16.htm">Dark</a> <a href="/job/10-21.htm">Darkness</a> <a href="/job/24-16.htm">Daytime</a> <a href="/job/24-16.htm">Day-Time</a> <a href="/job/12-25.htm">Feeling</a> <a href="/job/12-25.htm">Grope</a> <a href="/job/6-14.htm">Meet</a> <a href="/psalms/91-6.htm">Midday</a> <a href="/job/7-4.htm">Night</a> <a href="/job/11-17.htm">Noon</a> <a href="/job/11-17.htm">Noonday</a> <a href="/job/11-17.htm">Noon-Day</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-8.htm">Sunlight</a> <a href="/job/5-26.htm">Time</a><div class="vheading2">Job 5</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/job/5-1.htm">Eliphaz shows that the end of the wicked is misery;</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/job/5-6.htm">that man is born to trouble;</a></span><br><span class="reftext">8. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/job/5-8.htm">that God is to be regarded in affliction;</a></span><br><span class="reftext">17. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/job/5-17.htm">the happy end of God's correction.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/job/5.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/job/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/job/5.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>They encounter darkness by day</b><br>This phrase suggests a situation where individuals face confusion and lack of understanding even during times when clarity should be present. Biblically, darkness often symbolizes ignorance, sin, or divine judgment (<a href="/isaiah/5-20.htm">Isaiah 5:20</a>, <a href="/john/3-19.htm">John 3:19</a>). In the context of Job, Eliphaz is speaking about the fate of the wicked, implying that their actions lead them into spiritual and moral darkness. This can be connected to the broader biblical theme of light versus darkness, where Jesus is described as the light of the world (<a href="/john/8-12.htm">John 8:12</a>), offering guidance and truth.<p><b>and grope at noon</b><br>Groping at noon indicates a profound disorientation and helplessness, as noon is typically the brightest part of the day. This imagery is reminiscent of <a href="/deuteronomy/28-29.htm">Deuteronomy 28:29</a>, where groping in daylight is a curse for disobedience. It highlights the futility and frustration of those who reject God's wisdom. Historically, this can be seen as a metaphor for the moral and spiritual blindness that can afflict individuals or societies, despite having access to truth and revelation.<p><b>as in the night</b><br>The comparison to night emphasizes the depth of their confusion and lost state. Night, in biblical literature, often represents danger, evil, and the absence of God's presence (<a href="/1_thessalonians/5-7.htm">1 Thessalonians 5:7</a>). This phrase underscores the severity of their plight, as they are unable to find their way even when conditions should be favorable. It serves as a warning of the consequences of living apart from God's guidance and can be seen as a call to seek the light of Christ, who dispels darkness and brings understanding (<a href="/ephesians/5-8.htm">Ephesians 5:8-14</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/e/eliphaz_the_temanite.htm">Eliphaz the Temanite</a></b><br>One of Job's three friends who comes to comfort him. Eliphaz is the speaker in this passage, offering his perspective on the suffering of the wicked.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/j/job.htm">Job</a></b><br>The central figure of the Book of Job, a man who experiences immense suffering and seeks to understand the reasons behind it.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/teman.htm">Teman</a></b><br>A region in Edom, known for its wise men. Eliphaz, being a Temanite, is considered a man of wisdom.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/d/darkness_and_light.htm">Darkness and Light</a></b><br>Symbolic elements used throughout the Bible to represent ignorance and understanding, evil and good, or judgment and salvation.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_suffering_of_the_wicked.htm">The Suffering of the Wicked</a></b><br>A theme in Eliphaz's speech, suggesting that those who do wrong will face confusion and calamity.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_sin.htm">The Consequences of Sin</a></b><br>Sin leads to spiritual blindness and confusion. Just as Eliphaz describes the wicked groping in darkness, sin can cloud our judgment and lead us away from God's truth.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_need_for_spiritual_light.htm">The Need for Spiritual Light</a></b><br>In a world filled with darkness, we must seek the light of God's Word to guide our paths. Jesus is the light of the world, and through Him, we find clarity and direction.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/d/discernment_in_suffering.htm">Discernment in Suffering</a></b><br>Not all suffering is a result of personal sin. While Eliphaz attributes Job's suffering to wrongdoing, we must be careful not to make hasty judgments about others' circumstances.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_friends_in_times_of_trouble.htm">The Role of Friends in Times of Trouble</a></b><br>Eliphaz's approach to Job's suffering reminds us of the importance of offering compassionate support rather than judgment when others are in distress.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/trusting_god's_wisdom.htm">Trusting God's Wisdom</a></b><br>Even when we face confusion and darkness, we can trust in God's wisdom and sovereignty. He sees the bigger picture and works all things for good.<a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/job/5.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(14) <span class= "bld">Darkness in the daytime.</span>--This is possibly an allusion to the Egyptian plague of darkness "that may be felt" (<a href="/exodus/10-21.htm" title="And the LORD said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.">Exodus 10:21</a>), as the words used are similar. This may be a note of probable date. (Compare <a href="/isaiah/59-10.htm" title="We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.">Isaiah 59:10</a>, 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.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/job/5.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 14.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">They meet with darkness in the daytime</span> (comp <a href="/deuteronomy/28-29.htm">Deuteronomy 28:29</a> and <a href="/isaiah/59-10.htm">Isaiah 59:10</a>). 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" (<a href="/job/3-23.htm">Job 3:23</a>); they are baffled, perplexed, confounded. <span class="cmt_word">And grope in the noonday as in the night</span> (comp. <a href="/job/12-25.htm">Job 12:25</a>). A variant form of the preceding hemistich. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/job/5-14.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">They encounter</span><br /><span class="heb">יְפַגְּשׁוּ־</span> <span class="translit">(yə·p̄ag·gə·šū-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6298.htm">Strong's 6298: </a> </span><span class="str2">To come in contact with, to concur</span><br /><br /><span class="word">darkness</span><br /><span class="heb">חֹ֑שֶׁךְ</span> <span class="translit">(ḥō·šeḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2822.htm">Strong's 2822: </a> </span><span class="str2">The dark, darkness, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness</span><br /><br /><span class="word">by day</span><br /><span class="heb">יוֹמָ֥ם</span> <span class="translit">(yō·w·mām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3119.htm">Strong's 3119: </a> </span><span class="str2">Daytime, by day</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and grope</span><br /><span class="heb">יְֽמַשְׁשׁ֥וּ</span> <span class="translit">(yə·maš·šū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4959.htm">Strong's 4959: </a> </span><span class="str2">To feel of, to grope</span><br /><br /><span class="word">at noon</span><br /><span class="heb">בַֽצָּהֳרָֽיִם׃</span> <span class="translit">(ḇaṣ·ṣā·ho·rā·yim)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6672.htm">Strong's 6672: </a> </span><span class="str2">A light, double light, noon</span><br /><br /><span class="word">as in the night.</span><br /><span class="heb">וְ֝כַלַּ֗יְלָה</span> <span class="translit">(wə·ḵal·lay·lāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3915.htm">Strong's 3915: </a> </span><span class="str2">A twist, night, adversity</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/job/5-14.htm">Job 5:14 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/job/5-14.htm">Job 5:14 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/job/5-14.htm">Job 5:14 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/job/5-14.htm">Job 5:14 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/job/5-14.htm">Job 5:14 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/job/5-14.htm">Job 5:14 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/job/5-14.htm">Job 5:14 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/job/5-14.htm">Job 5:14 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/job/5-14.htm">Job 5:14 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/job/5-14.htm">Job 5:14 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/5-14.htm">OT Poetry: Job 5:14 They meet with darkness in the day (Jb) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/job/5-13.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 5:13"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 5:13" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/job/5-15.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 5:15"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 5:15" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>