Job 5:14

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

Cross-references

Job 12:25 Parallel

Job 12:25 repeats the imagery of groping in darkness, reinforcing the same theme of divine judgment on the proud.

Job 38:15 Parallel

Job 38:15 says light is withheld from the wicked — conceptual parallel to daytime darkness as judgment.

Deuteronomy 28:29 curses the disobedient with groping at noon — identical language of blindness as judgment.

Isaiah 59:10 speaks of groping like the blind at noon — echoes the same judgment imagery.

Amos 8:9 Parallel

Amos 8:9 predicts sun darkening at noon — parallels daytime darkness as divine judgment.

2 Kings 6:18 has Elisha strike the Arameans with blindness — literal fulfillment of groping in darkness.

Proverbs 4:19 describes the wicked's way as deep darkness — a similar metaphor for moral blindness.