Job 12:25
Good News Translation
they grope in the dark and stagger like drunkards.

New Revised Standard Version
They grope in the dark without light; he makes them stagger like a drunkard.

Contemporary English Version
lost in the dark, staggering like someone drunk.

New American Bible
They grope in the darkness without light; he makes them wander like drunkards.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall grope as in the dark, and not in the light, and he shall make them stagger like men that are drunk.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They shall grope as in the dark, and not in the light, and he shall make them stagger like men that are drunk.

grope

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

Genesis 19:11 And them, that were without, they struck with blindness from the least to the greatest, so that they could not find the door.

Deuteronomy 28:29 And mayst thou grope at midday as the blind is wont to grope in the dark, and not make straight thy ways. And mayst thou at all times suffer wrong, and be oppressed with violence, and mayst thou have no one to deliver thee.

Isaiah 59:10 We have groped for the wall, and like the blind we have groped as if we had no eyes: we have stumbled at noonday as in darkness, we are in dark places, as dead men.

Acts 13:11 And now behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee: and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a time. And immediately there fell a mist and darkness upon him: and going about, he sought some one to lead him by the hand.

1 John 2:11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness and walketh in darkness and knoweth not whither he goeth: because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.

maketh

Psalm 107:27 They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their wisdom was swallowed up.

Isaiah 19:14 The Lord hath mingled in the midst thereof the spirit of giddiness: and they have caused Egypt to err in all its works, as a drunken man staggereth and vomiteth.

Isaiah 24:20 With shaking shall the earth be shaken as a drunken man, and shall be removed as the tent of one night: and the iniquity thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.

stagger.

Context
Job Responds to Zophar
24He changeth the heart of the princes of the people of the earth, and deceiveth them that they walk in vain where there is no way. 25They shall grope as in the dark, and not in the light, and he shall make them stagger like men that are drunk.
Cross References
Job 5:14
They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night.

Job 18:6
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him, shall be put out.

Psalm 107:27
They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their wisdom was swallowed up.

Isaiah 24:20
With shaking shall the earth be shaken as a drunken man, and shall be removed as the tent of one night: and the iniquity thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.

Job 12:24
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