Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

  • 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.
  • Job 5:14 : 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.
  • Lam 3:6 : 6 He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.
  • Lam 4:14 : 14 נ(Nun) They wander blindly through the streets, defiled by the blood they shed, while no one dares to touch their garments.
  • Amos 8:9 : 9 In that day,” says the Sovereign LORD,“I will make the sun set at noon, and make the earth dark in the middle of the day.
  • John 11:9-9 : 9 Jesus replied,“Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 10 But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”
  • John 12:35 : 35 Jesus replied,“The light is with you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
  • John 12:40 : 40 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and turn to me, and I would heal them.”
  • 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.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.
  • Isa 8:15 : 15 Many will stumble over the stone and the rock, and will fall and be seriously injured, and will be ensnared and captured.”
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Show 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.