Job 5:14
Modern Translations
New International Version
Darkness comes upon them in the daytime; at noon they grope as in the night.

New Living Translation
They find it is dark in the daytime, and they grope at noon as if it were night.

English Standard Version
They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night.

Berean Study Bible
They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.

New American Standard Bible
“By day they meet with darkness, And grope at noon as in the night.

NASB 1995
"By day they meet with darkness, And grope at noon as in the night.

NASB 1977
“By day they meet with darkness, And grope at noon as in the night.

Amplified Bible
“In the daytime they meet in darkness, And at noon they grope as in the night.

Christian Standard Bible
They encounter darkness by day, and they grope at noon as if it were night.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They encounter darkness by day, and they grope at noon as if it were night.

Contemporary English Version
Darkness is their only companion, hiding their path at noon.

Good News Translation
even at noon they grope in darkness.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
In the daytime they meet darkness and grope in the sunlight as if it were night.

International Standard Version
They meet with darkness in broad daylight; at noonday they grope around as if it were night.

NET Bible
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

New King James Version
They meet with darkness in the daytime, And grope at noontime as in the night.

King James 2000 Bible
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

New Heart English Bible
They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

World English Bible
They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

American King James Version
They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

American Standard Version
They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.

A Faithful Version
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at the noonday as in the night.

Darby Bible Translation
They meet with darkness in a the daytime, and grope at midday as in the night.

English Revised Version
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.

Webster's Bible Translation
They meet with darkness in the day-time, and grope in the noon-day as in the night.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
They meete with darkenesse in the day time, and grope at noone day, as in the night.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
They runne into darknesse by fayre day, and grope at the noone day as in the night.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
In so moch that they runne in to darcknesse by fayre daye, and grope aboute them at the noone daye, like as in the night.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
By day they meet darkness, "" And as night—they grope at noon.

Young's Literal Translation
By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.

Smith's Literal Translation
The days they will meet darkness, and they will grope in the noon day as night.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night.

Catholic Public Domain Version
They will encounter darkness in the daytime, and they will grope at midday just as in the night.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
By day they will grope as when in darkness, and they will grope at noonday as at night

Lamsa Bible
They handle things in the daytime as though they were in darkness, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noon-day even as in the night:
















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