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Selected Verse: Job 5:14 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Job 5:14 |
King James |
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Judicial blindness often is sent upon keen men of the world (Deu 28:29; Isa 59:10; Joh 9:39). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| They meet with darkness in the day-time - Margin, "run into;" compare the notes at Isa 59:10. The sense is, that where there is really no obstacle to the accomplishment of an honest plan - any more than there is for a man to walk in the day-time - they become perplexed and embarrassed, as much as a man would be, should sudden darkness come around him at mid-day. The same sentiment occurs in Job 12:25. A life of honesty and uprightness will be attended with prosperity, but a man who attempts to carry his plans by trick and art, will meet with unexpected embarrassments. The sentiment in all these expressions is, that God embarrasses the cunning, the crafty, and the artful, but gives success to those who are upright; and that, therefore, he is worthy of confidence. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Meet - In plain things they run into gross mistakes, and chuse those courses which are worst for themselves. Darkness often notes misery, but here ignorance or error. Grope - Like blind men to find their way, not knowing what to do. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| They meet with darkness in the daytime - God confounds them and their measures; and, with all their cunning and dexterity, they are outwitted, and often act on their own projects, planned with care and skill, as if they had been the crudest conceptions of the most disordered minds. They act in noonday as if the sun were extinct, and their eyes put out. Thus does God "abate their pride, assuage their malice, and confound their devices." |
39 And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
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.
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.
25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
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.