Job 12:25

KJV1611 – Modern English

They grope in the dark without light, and He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

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  • Job 5:14 : 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as if it were 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 has mingled a perverse spirit in its midst, and they have caused Egypt to err in every work, like a drunken man staggers 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 its transgression 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 noon as in the night; we are in desolate places like dead men.
  • Acts 13:11 : 11 And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a time. And immediately a mist and a darkness fell on him; and he went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.
  • 1 John 2:11 : 11 But he who hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
  • Gen 19:11 : 11 And they struck the men at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they tired themselves trying to find the door.
  • Deut 28:29 : 29 And you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and plundered evermore, and no man shall save you.

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  • Job 12:19-24
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    19He leads princes away plundered, and overthrows the mighty.

    20He removes the speech of the trusted, and takes away the understanding of the aged.

    21He pours contempt on princes, and weakens the strength of the mighty.

    22He reveals deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

    23He increases the nations, and destroys them: He enlarges the nations, and shrinks them again.

    24He takes away the heart of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

  • Ps 107:27
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    27They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

  • Job 5:14
    79%

    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as if it were night.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19The way of the wicked is like darkness: they do not know at what they stumble.

  • Isa 59:9-10
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    76%

    9Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us: we wait for light, but see 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 noon as in the night; we are in desolate places like dead men.

  • John 11:10
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    10But if one walks in the night, he stumbles, because there is no light in him.

  • Isa 8:22
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    22And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into darkness.

  • Isa 29:9
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    9Pause and wonder; cry out and cry: they are drunk, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

  • Ps 82:5
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    5They do not know, nor do they understand; they walk in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

  • Job 24:16-18
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    16In the dark they break into houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

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

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

  • Isa 28:7
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    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 by wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

  • Job 10:22
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    22A land of darkness, like darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

  • Job 24:10-13
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    10They make him go naked without clothing and take away the sheaf from the hungry;

    11They make oil within their walls and tread their winepresses, and still they thirst.

    12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out, yet God does not charge them with folly.

    13They are among those who rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.

  • Job 17:12
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    12They change the night into day; the light is near because of darkness.

  • Jer 13:16
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    16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

  • Ps 69:23
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    23Let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see, and make their loins continually to shake.

  • Lam 3:2
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    2He has led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

  • Job 12:17
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    17He leads counselors away plundered, and makes the judges fools.

  • Eccl 12:3
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    3In the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look out of the windows are darkened,

  • Job 15:23
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    23He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10For while they are entangled like thorns and while they are drunken like drunkards, they shall be devoured as fully dry stubble.

  • Job 12:5
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    5He who is ready to slip with his feet is like a lamp despised in the thought of him who is at ease.

  • Isa 5:11
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    11Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who continue until night, till wine inflames them!

  • Isa 24:11
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    11There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

  • Isa 24:20
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    20The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and its transgression shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

  • Jer 25:16
    71%

    16And they shall drink, and stagger, and go mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

  • Rom 11:10
    71%

    10Let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see, and bend their backs always.

  • Job 18:6
    71%

    6The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

  • Deut 28:29
    71%

    29And you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and plundered evermore, and no man shall save you.

  • Prov 4:17
    71%

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

  • Prov 31:5-6
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    5Lest they drink and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

    6Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to those of heavy hearts.

  • Isa 24:9
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    9They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.

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    40He pours contempt upon princes, and causes them to wander in the wilderness where there is no way.

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

  • Isa 42:16
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    16And I will bring the blind by a way they do not know; I will lead them in paths 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.

  • Isa 5:30
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    30And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one looks to the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened by the clouds of the heavens.

  • Jer 23:12
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    12Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall in it; for I will bring disaster upon them, the year of their punishment, says the LORD.

  • Joel 1:5
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    5Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.