Job 12:25

King James Version 1611 (Original)

They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

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  • Job 5:14 : 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
  • Ps 107:27 : 27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
  • Isa 19:14 : 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.
  • Isa 24:20 : 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.
  • Isa 59:10 : 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.
  • Acts 13:11 : 11 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.
  • 1 John 2:11 : 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.
  • Gen 19:11 : 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.
  • Deut 28:29 : 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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  • Job 12:19-24
    6 verses
    80%

    19He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.

    20He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.

    21He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.

    22He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

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

    24He 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.

  • 27They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

  • 14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

  • 19The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

  • Isa 59:9-10
    2 verses
    76%

    9Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

    10We 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.

  • 10But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.

  • 22And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

  • 9Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

  • 5They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

  • Job 24:16-18
    3 verses
    74%

    16In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

    17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

    18He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

  • 7But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

  • 22A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

  • Job 24:10-13
    4 verses
    74%

    10They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

    11Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

    12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

    13They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

  • 12They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

  • 16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

  • 23Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.

  • 2He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

  • 17He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.

  • 3In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,

  • 23He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

  • 10For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

  • 5He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

  • 11Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

  • 11There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

  • 20The 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.

  • 16And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

  • 10Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.

  • 6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

  • 29And 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.

  • 17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

  • Prov 31:5-6
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    71%

    5Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

    6Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

  • 9They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

  • 40He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.

  • 18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

  • 16And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

  • 30And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

  • 12Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.

  • 5Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.