Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Bible References

Grope

Job 5:14

“In the daytime they meet in darkness,
And at noon they grope as in the night.
Job 12:25

“They grope in darkness without light,
And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.”
Psalm 69:23

May their eyes be dimmed so that they cannot see,
And make their loins shake continually [in terror and weakness].
Isaiah 59:10

We grope for a wall like the blind,
We grope like those who have no eyes.
We stumble at midday as in the twilight;
Among those who are healthy we are like dead men.
Lamentations 5:17

Because of this our heart is faint,
Because of these things our eyes are dim.
Zephaniah 1:17

I will bring distress on men
So that they will walk like the blind [unable to find a way of escape],
Because they have sinned against the Lord;
Their blood will be poured out like dust [and trampled underfoot],
And their flesh like dung.
Romans 11:7
What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking [that is, God’s favor by obedience to the Law], but the elect [those chosen few] obtained it, while the rest of them became hardened and callously indifferent;
2 Corinthians 4:3
But even if our gospel is [in some sense] hidden [behind a veil], it is hidden [only] to those who are perishing;