Job 12:25
They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
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- Job 5:14 : 14 They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
- Ps 107:27 : 27 They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits' end.
- Isa 19:14 : 14 Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work of it, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
- Isa 24:20 : 20 The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway back and forth like a hammock; and the disobedience of it shall be heavy on it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.
- Isa 59:10 : 10 We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.
- Acts 13:11 : 11 Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!" Immediately there fell on him a mist and darkness. He went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.
- 1 John 2:11 : 11 But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
- Gen 19:11 : 11 They struck the men who 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 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 robbed always, and there shall be none to save you.
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- Job 12:19-246 verses80%
19 He leads priests away stripped, And overthrows the mighty.
20 He removes the speech of those who are trusted, And takes away the understanding of the elders.
21 He pours contempt on princes, And loosens the belt of the strong.
22 He uncovers deep things out of darkness, And brings out to light the shadow of death.
23 He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.
24 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, And causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
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27 They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits' end.
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14 They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
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19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.
- Isa 59:9-102 verses76%
9 Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
10 We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.
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10 But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in him."
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22 and they shall look to the earth, and see, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.
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9 Stay you and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
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5 They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
- Job 24:16-183 verses74%
16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.
17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
18 "They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth: They don't turn into the way of the vineyards.
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7 Even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
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22 The land dark as midnight, Of the shadow of death, without any order, Where the light is as midnight.'"
- Job 24:10-134 verses74%
10 So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
11 They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
12 From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, Yet God doesn't regard the folly.
13 "These are of those who rebel against the light; They don't know the ways of it, Nor abide in the paths of it.
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12 They change the night into day, Saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.
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16 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
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23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see. Let their backs be continually bent.
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2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
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17 He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
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3 In 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 who look out of the windows are darkened,
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23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
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10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
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5 In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune, It is ready for them whose foot slips.
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11 Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; Who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!
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11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
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20 The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway back and forth like a hammock; and the disobedience of it shall be heavy on it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.
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16 They shall drink, and reel back and forth, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
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10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Bow down their back always."
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6 The light shall be dark in his tent, His lamp above him shall be put out.
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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 robbed always, and there shall be none to save you.
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17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.
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5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, And pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.
6 Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; And wine to the bitter in soul:
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9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.
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40 He pours contempt on princes, And causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
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18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.
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16 I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know; in paths that they don't know will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things will I do, and I will not forsake them.
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30 They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.
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12 Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.
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5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; For it is cut off from your mouth.