Job 12:25 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ They shall grope as in the dark, and not in the light: and he shall make them stagger like men that are drunk.

Job 12:25 Cross References

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 wearied themselves groping for the door.

Job 18:6

The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.

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 drunken men, and were at their wits' end.

Isaiah 19:14

The Lord has mingled within her a spirit of confusion; and they have made Egypt stagger in all her doings as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

Isaiah 24:20

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

Isaiah 59:10

We grope for the wall like the blind, we grope like those who have no eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among those in full vigor we are like dead men.

Acts 13:11

And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind and unable to see the sun for a time.” Immediately mist and darkness fell upon him and he went about seeking people to lead him by the hand.

Deuteronomy 28:29

and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways; and you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you.

1 John 2:11

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.