Job 5:14 — Compare Translations
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English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young
By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.
English ASV
They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
English Amplified
In the daytime they meet in darkness, and at noon they grope as in the night.
English Amplified Classic Bible 1987
In the daytime they meet in darkness, and at noon they grope as in the night.
English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025
They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible
They encounter darkness by day, and they grope at noon as if it were night.
English Darby 1890 : Public Domain
They meet with darkness in a the daytime, and grope at midday as in the night.
English EASY 2024
In the middle of the day, it becomes dark for those people. At midday, they see no better than blind people.
English ERV 2006 - Only For Website
Daylight will be like darkness for them. Even at noon they will have to feel their way as in the dark.
English ESV 2016 == The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles
They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night.
English GNT (Good News Translation)
even at noon they grope in darkness.
English God's Word - GW 1995
In the daytime they meet darkness and grope in the sunlight as if it were night.
English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website
They encounter darkness by day, and they grope at noon as if it were night.
English KJV 1611
They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
English LSB
By day they meet with darkness And grope at noon as in the night.
English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)
In the daytime they encounter darkness, and at noontime they grope as in the night.
English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)
"By day they meet with darkness, And grope at noon as in the night.
English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and at noonday they grope as though it were night.
English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.
English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website
Darkness covers them in the daytime. At noon they feel their way around as if it were night.
English NIV
Darkness comes upon them in the daytime; at noon they grope as in the night.
English NKJ 1982
They meet with darkness in the daytime, And grope at noontime as in the night.
English NLT
They grope in the daylight as though they were blind; they see no better in the daytime than at night.
English NRSV 1989 - Only for website
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.
English RSV (Revised Standard Version)
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.
English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)
They grope like blind men in the daylight; they see no better in the daytime than at night.
English Tyndale 1537
In so much that they run in to darkness by fair day, and grope about them at the noon day, like as in the night.