Job 12:25
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.”
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“They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.”
King James Version · Public Domain“They grope in the dark without light; And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“They feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to wander as a drunkard.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 12:25 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 19:11And they struck the men at the entrance, young and old, with blindness, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the door.
- Deuteronomy 28:29and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.
- Job 5:14They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
- Psalms 107:27They reeled and staggered like drunkards, and all their skill was useless.
- Isaiah 19:14The LORD has poured into her a spirit of confusion. Egypt has been led astray in all she does, as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit.
- Isaiah 24:20The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a shack. Earth’s rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise again.
- Isaiah 59:10Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.
- Acts 13:11Now look, the hand of the Lord is against you, and for a time you will be blind and unable to see the light of the sun.” Immediately mist and darkness came over him, and he groped about, seeking someone to lead him by the hand.
- 1 John 2:11But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
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