Job 5:14
Strong's Lexicon
They encounter
יְפַגְּשׁוּ־ (yə·p̄ag·gə·šū-)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6298: 1) to meet, join, encounter 1a) (Qal) to meet, encounter 1b) (Niphal) to meet together, meet each other 1c) (Piel) to meet, encounter

darkness
חֹ֑שֶׁךְ (ḥō·šeḵ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2822: 1) darkness, obscurity 1a) darkness 1b) secret place

by day
יוֹמָ֥ם (yō·w·mām)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 3119: adv 1) by day, in the daytime subst 2) daytime

and grope
יְֽמַשְׁשׁ֥וּ (yə·maš·šū)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4959: 1) to feel, grope 1a) (Qal) to feel, grope 1b) (Piel) to feel over or through, grope 1b1) to feel through 1b2) to grope 1c)(Hiphil) to feel

at noon
בַֽצָּהֳרָֽיִם׃ (ḇaṣ·ṣā·ho·rā·yim)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6672: n m 1) noon, midday 1a) noon (as specific time of day) 1b) noon (in simile as bright of happiness, blessing) n f 2) roof 2a) meaning dubious

as in the night.
וְ֝כַלַּ֗יְלָה (wə·ḵal·lay·lāh)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3915: 1) night 1a) night (as opposed to day) 1b) of gloom, protective shadow (fig.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They encounter darkness by day, and they grope at noon 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.

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

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

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
















Cross References
Job 12:25
They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

Job 15:30
He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

Job 18:18
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Job 20:26
All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

Job 22:11
Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

Job 24:13
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

Job 38:15
And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.

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.

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:

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Job 5:13
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
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