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 encounter darkness, and, as though it were night, they grope at high noon.
Genesis 19:11
the men also who were at the entrance of the house, smote they with blindness, from small even unto great, so that they wearied themselves to find the entrance.
Deuteronomy 28:29
and thou shalt he groping about in noonday brightness, as the blind man gropeth in thick darkness, and thou shalt not make thy ways prosper, - but shalt be only oppressed and spoiled all the days with none to save.
Isaiah 59:10
We grope, as blind men for a wall, Yea, as men without eyes, do we grope, - We have stumbled at broad noon as though it were twilight, In desolate places like the dead!
Acts 13:11
Now, therefore, lo! the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun, until a fitting time. And, instantly, there fell upon him a mist and darkness; and, going about, he was seeking such as might lead him by the hand.
1 John 2:11
Whereas, he that hateth his brother, in the darkness, dwelleth, and in the darkness, walketh; and knoweth not whither he is drifting, because the, darkness, hath blinded his eyes.

Maketh

Psalm 107:27
They reel and stagger, like a drunken man, and, all their wisdom, is engulfed,
Isaiah 19:14
Yahweh, hath infused in her midst, a spirit of perverseness, - And they have led Egypt astray into all his own doings, As a drunken man staggereth into his own vomit;
Isaiah 24:20
The earth staggereth - staggereth like a drunken man, And rocketh to and fro like a night-hut, - So shall be heavy upon her, her transgression, And she shall fall and not again rise.

General references

Proverbs 4:19
The way of the lawless, is like darkness, they know not, at what they stumble.