Job 12:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁵ They grope in the dark without light; he makes them stagger like a drunkard.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ They grope in the dark without light, And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ They grope in the dark without light, and He makes them to stagger and wander like a drunken man.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ They grope in the dark without light; And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

Common English Bible

²⁵ They feel their way in the dark without light; he makes them stumble like drunks.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ They will grope as in the darkness, not the light, and he will make them stagger like drunkards.

Job 12:25 Cross References

Job 5:14

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

Psalm 107:27

they reeled and staggered like drunkards and were at their wits’ end.

Isaiah 24:20

The earth staggers like a drunkard; it sways like a hut; its transgression lies heavy upon it, and it falls and will not rise again.

Isaiah 19:14

The Lord has poured into them a spirit of confusion; and they have made Egypt stagger in all its doings as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.

1 John 2:11

But whoever hates a brother or sister is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know the way to go, because the darkness has brought on blindness.

Acts 13:11

And now listen—the hand of the Lord is against you, and you will be blind for a while, unable to see the sun.” Immediately mist and darkness came over him, and he fumbled about for someone to lead him by the hand.

Isaiah 59:10

We grope like the blind along a wall, groping like those who have no eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among the vigorous as though we were dead.

Deuteronomy 28:29

you shall grope about at noon as blind people grope in darkness, but you shall be unable to find your way, and you shall be continually abused and robbed, without anyone to help.

Genesis 19:11

And they struck with blindness the men who were at the door of the house, both small and great, so that they were unable to find the door.

Job 18:6

The light is dark in their tent, and the lamp above them is put out.