Parallel Verses
Amplified
“They grope in darkness without light,
And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.”
New American Standard Bible
And He makes them
King James Version
They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
Holman Bible
He makes them stagger like drunken men.
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International Standard Version
They grope in the dark without light; he causes them to stagger around like a drunkard."
A Conservative Version
They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man.
American Standard Version
They grope in the dark without light; And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
Bible in Basic English
They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.
Darby Translation
They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunkard.
Julia Smith Translation
They will feel darkness and not light, and he will cause them to wander as one intoxicated.
King James 2000
They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They grope [in] the dark {without} light, and he makes them stagger like a drunkard.
Modern King James verseion
They grope in the dark without light, and He makes them to stagger like a drunkard.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and grope in the dark without light, staggering to and fro like drunken men.
NET Bible
They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.
New Heart English Bible
They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
The Emphasized Bible
They grope about in the dark, having no light, and He hath made them to reel, like a drunken man.
Webster
They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
World English Bible
They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
Youngs Literal Translation
They feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to wander as a drunkard.
Themes
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 12:25
Verse Info
Context Readings
If You Want To Learn
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“He removes intelligence and understanding from the leaders of the people of the earth
And makes them wander and move blindly in a pathless waste.
“They grope in darkness without light,
And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.”
Cross References
Job 5:14
“In the daytime they meet in darkness,
And at noon they grope as in the night.
Psalm 107:27
They staggered and trembled like a drunken man,
And were at their wits’ end [all their wisdom was useless].
Isaiah 19:14
The Lord has mixed a spirit of distortion within her;
Her leaders have caused Egypt to stagger in all that she does,
As a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
Isaiah 24:20
The earth reels back and forth like a drunkard
And sways like a shack;
Its transgression lies heavily upon it,
And it will fall and not rise again.
Genesis 19:11
They struck (punished) the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, from the young men to the old men, so that they exhausted themselves trying to find the doorway.
Deuteronomy 28:29
and you will be groping at noon [in broad daylight], just as the blind grope in the darkness, and nothing you do will prosper; but you will only be oppressed and exploited and robbed continually, with no one to save you.
Isaiah 59:10
We grope for a wall like the blind,
We grope like those who have no eyes.
We stumble at midday as in the twilight;
Among those who are healthy we are like dead men.
Acts 13:11
1 John 2:11
But the one who habitually hates (works against) his brother [in Christ] is in [spiritual] darkness and is walking in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.