And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
Job 12:25 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 They grope in the dark without light, And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They grope in the dark without light, And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They grope in the dark without light, and He makes them to stagger and wander like a drunken man. American Standard Version (1901) They grope in the dark without light; And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man. Common English Bible They feel their way in the dark without light; he makes them stumble like drunks. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 They shall grope as in the dark, and not in the light: and he shall make them stagger like men that are drunk. |
And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.
They meet with darkness in the daytime, And grope at noonday as in the night.
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits' end.
The LORD hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her: and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall be moved to and fro like a hut; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.
We grope for the wall like the blind, yea, we grope as they that have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty we are as dead men.
And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.
and thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled alway, and there shall be none to save thee.
But he that hateth his brother is in the darkness, and walketh in the darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.