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Job 5:14

Job 5:14
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

They meet with darkness in the daytime,.... Which may denote their infatuation in things the most plain and clear, and which are obvious to everyone's view, even to such as are of much meaner…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 5:6-16

Eliphaz, having touched Job in a very tender part, in mentioning both the loss of his estate and the death of his children as the just punishment of his sin, that he might not drive him to despair,…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

A picture of the perplexity and bewilderment of those crafty men whose counsels God has come athwart, Job 5:5.

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