Job 12:25
They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.
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- Job 5:14 : 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.
- Ps 107:27 : 27 They swayed and staggered like a drunk, and all their skill proved ineffective.
- Isa 19:14 : 14 The LORD has made them undiscerning; they lead Egypt astray in all she does, so that she is like a drunk sliding around in his own vomit.
- Isa 24:20 : 20 The earth will stagger around like a drunk; it will sway back and forth like a hut in a windstorm. Its sin will weigh it down, and it will fall and never get up again.
- Isa 59:10 : 10 We grope along the wall like the blind, we grope like those who cannot see; we stumble at noontime as if it were evening. Though others are strong, we are like dead men.
- Acts 13:11 : 11 Now look, the hand of the Lord is against you, and you will be blind, unable to see the sun for a time!” Immediately mistiness and darkness came over him, and he went around seeking people to lead him by the hand.
- 1 John 2:11 : 11 But the one who hates his fellow Christian is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
- Gen 19:11 : 11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, from the youngest to the oldest, with blindness. The men outside wore themselves out trying to find the door.
- Deut 28:29 : 29 You will feel your way along at noon like the blind person does in darkness and you will not succeed in anything you do; you will be constantly oppressed and continually robbed, with no one to save you.
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- Job 12:19-246 verses80%
19He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the potentates.
20He deprives the trusted advisers of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.
21He pours contempt on noblemen and disarms the powerful.
22He reveals the deep things of darkness, and brings deep shadows into the light.
23He makes nations great, and destroys them; he extends the boundaries of nations and disperses them.
24He deprives the leaders of the earth of their understanding; he makes them wander in a trackless desert waste.
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27They swayed and staggered like a drunk, and all their skill proved ineffective.
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14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.
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19The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.
- Isa 59:9-102 verses76%
9Israel Confesses its Sin For this reason deliverance is far from us and salvation does not reach us. We wait for light, but see only darkness; we wait for a bright light, but live in deep darkness.
10We grope along the wall like the blind, we grope like those who cannot see; we stumble at noontime as if it were evening. Though others are strong, we are like dead men.
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10But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”
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22When one looks out over the land, he sees distress and darkness, gloom and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land.
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9God’s People Are Spiritually Insensitive You will be shocked and amazed! You are totally blind! They are drunk, but not because of wine; they stagger, but not because of beer.
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5They neither know nor understand. They stumble around in the dark, while all the foundations of the earth crumble.
- Job 24:16-183 verses74%
16In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.
17For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.
18“You say,‘He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.
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7Even these men stagger because of wine, they stumble around because of beer– priests and prophets stagger because of beer, they are confused because of wine, they stumble around because of beer; they stagger while seeing prophetic visions, they totter while making legal decisions.
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22to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
- Job 24:10-134 verses74%
10They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves.
11They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty.
12From the city the dying groan, and the wounded cry out for help, but God charges no one with wrongdoing.
13There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths.
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12These men change night into day; they say,‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’
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16Show the LORD your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile.
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23May their eyes be blinded! Make them shake violently!
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2He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.
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17He leads counselors away stripped and makes judges into fools.
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3when those who keep watch over the house begin to tremble, and the virile men begin to stoop over, and the grinders begin to cease because they grow few, and those who look through the windows grow dim,
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23he wanders about– food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.
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10Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.
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5For calamity, there is derision(according to the ideas of the fortunate)– a fate for those whose feet slip!
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11Beware, those who get up early to drink beer, those who keep drinking long after dark until they are intoxicated with wine.
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11They howl in the streets because of what happened to the wine; all joy turns to sorrow; celebrations disappear from the earth.
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20The earth will stagger around like a drunk; it will sway back and forth like a hut in a windstorm. Its sin will weigh it down, and it will fall and never get up again.
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16When they have drunk it, they will stagger to and fro and act insane. For I will send wars sweeping through them.”
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10let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see, and make their backs bend continually.”
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6The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.
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29You will feel your way along at noon like the blind person does in darkness and you will not succeed in anything you do; you will be constantly oppressed and continually robbed, with no one to save you.
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17Indeed they have eaten bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.
- Prov 31:5-62 verses71%
5lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and remove from all the poor their legal rights.
6Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those who are bitterly distressed;
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9They no longer sing and drink wine; the beer tastes bitter to those who drink it.
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40He would pour contempt upon princes, and he made them wander in a wasteland with no road.
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18He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.
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16I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way; I will guide them down paths they have never traveled. I will turn the darkness in front of them into light, and level out the rough ground. This is what I will do for them. I will not abandon them.
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30At that time they will growl over their prey, it will sound like sea waves crashing against rocks. One will look out over the land and see the darkness of disaster, clouds will turn the light into darkness.
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12So the paths they follow will be dark and slippery. They will stumble and fall headlong. For I will bring disaster on them. A day of reckoning is coming for them.” The LORD affirms it!
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5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because the sweet wine has been taken away from you.