Job 5:14

meet. meet repeatedly.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They meet with darkness in the day-time - Margin, “run into;” compare the notes at Isaiah 59:10 . The sense is, that where there is really no ob...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

They meet with (n) darkness in the daytime, and (o) grope in the noonday as in the night. (n) In things plain and evident they show themselves fools...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Eliphaz advises Job to accept the Divine discipline so that God may again show Himself gracious. As for me, instead of being impatient like a fool, I...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. They meet with darkness in the daytime - God confounds them and the...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. They meet. Judicial blindness often is sent upon keen men o...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The First Speech of Eliphaz (concluded) 1-5. Eliphaz warns Job that to show a resentful temper at God's dispensations is folly, and that fools nev...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The bewildered, haunted state into which the crooked devices of the wicked bring them.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Darkness in the daytime. — This is possibly an allusion to the Egyptian plague of darkness “that may be felt” ( Exodus 10:21 ), as the words used a...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

VII. THE THINGS ELIPHAZ HAD SEEN Job 4:1-21 ; Job 5:1-27 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE ideas of sin and suffering against which the poem of Job was wri...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Benefits of Chastisement Job 5:1-27 In this chapter Eliphaz closes his first speech. He had already suggested that Job's sufferings were th...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proceeding, Eliphaz asked Job to whom he would appeal, to which of the holy ones, that is, as against the truth which he had declared, or in defense...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(9) Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: (10) Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fie...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

They meet with darkness in the daytime ,.... Which may denote their infatuation in things the most plain and clear, and which are obvious to everyon...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. Ver. 14. They meet with darkness in the daytime ] They are infat...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness Men wise to do evil, or wise in the opinion of the world; he not only deceives their hopes and counsels,...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

FURTHER OBSERVATIONS BY ELIPHAZ (vv.1-27) Eliphaz suggests to Job that he call out to creatures for help, even to holy ones - holy men or angels...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; 7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the s...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

i.e. In plain things they run into gross mistakes and errors, and commonly choose those counsels and courses which are worst for themselves. Darknes...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE FIRST SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ.—CONTINUED I. Application of the Vision ( Job 5:1 ). “Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 5:1 . To which of the saints wilt thou turn? Men in anguish look every way for help, but how can either angel or departed spirit of the just h...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 5:1-18 Eliphaz, having narrated his vision, and rehearsed the words which the spirit spoke in his ear, continues in his own...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Answering A Possible Objection On Job's Part
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope in the noonday as in the night, afflicted with blindness by God, being punished for their impertinen...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 8:9 ; Deuteronomy 28:29 ; Isaiah 59:10 ; Job 12:25 ; Proverbs 4:19
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Meet — In plain things they run into gross mistakes, and chuse those courses which are worst for themselves. Darkness often notes misery, but here...

¹⁴ They meetf with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

Related Commentaries of Job 5:14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 5:14