Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

General references

Bible References

Grope

Job 5:14
“By day they meet with darkness,
And grope at noon as in the night.
Genesis 19:11
They struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the doorway.
Deuteronomy 28:29
and you will grope at noon, as the blind man gropes in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways; but you shall only be oppressed and robbed continually, with none to save you.
Isaiah 59:10
We grope along the wall like blind men,
We grope like those who have no eyes;
We stumble at midday as in the twilight,
Among those who are vigorous we are like dead men.
Acts 13:11
Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and not see the sun for a time.” And immediately a mist and a darkness fell upon him, and he went about seeking those who would lead him by the hand.
1 John 2:11
But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Maketh

Psalm 107:27
They reeled and staggered like a drunken man,
And were at their wits’ end.
Isaiah 19:14
The Lord has mixed within her a spirit of distortion;
They have led Egypt astray in all that it does,
As a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
Isaiah 24:20
The earth reels to and fro like a drunkard
And it totters like a shack,
For its transgression is heavy upon it,
And it will fall, never to rise again.

General references

Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked is like darkness;
They do not know over what they stumble.