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Job 12:25

23 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.

24 He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
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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 meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

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  • Psalms 107:27

    They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.

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  • Isaiah 24:20

    The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

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  • Isaiah 19:14

    The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

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  • Deuteronomy 28:29

    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 evermore, and no man shall save thee.

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  • 1 John 2:11

    But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

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  • Isaiah 59:10

    We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

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  • Genesis 19:11

    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.

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