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Job 12:25

23 He makes nations great and destroys them; He enlarges nations, then disperses them.

24 He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.
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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.
KJV
They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
WEB
They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
ASV
They grope in the dark without light; And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
DARBY
They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunkard.
BLB
They feel [about] [in] darkness without light, and He makes them stagger like a drunkard.
ÅB
de famler i mørke uten lys, og han lar dem rave slik som drukne.
[^1]: HAB 1, 11.
OTB
De famler i mørket uten lys;
Han får dem til å vakle som drankere.
B1930
de famler i mørke uten lys, og han lar dem rave likesom drukne.

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Cross references

  • Job 5:14

    They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.

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  • Psalms 107:27

    They reeled and staggered like drunkards, and all their skill was useless.

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  • Isaiah 24:20

    The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a shack. Earth’s rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise again.

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  • Isaiah 19:14

    The 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.

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  • Deuteronomy 28:29

    and 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.

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  • 1 John 2:11

    But 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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  • Isaiah 59:10

    Like 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.

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  • Genesis 19:11

    And they struck the men at the entrance, young and old, with blindness, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the door.

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