Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
They grope about in the dark, having no light, and He hath made them to reel, like a drunken man.
New American Standard Bible
And He makes them
King James Version
They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
Holman Bible
He makes them stagger like drunken men.
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International Standard Version
They grope in the dark without light; he causes them to stagger around like a drunkard."
A Conservative Version
They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man.
American Standard Version
They grope in the dark without light; And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
Amplified
“They grope in darkness without light,
And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.”
Bible in Basic English
They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.
Darby Translation
They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunkard.
Julia Smith Translation
They will feel darkness and not light, and he will cause them to wander as one intoxicated.
King James 2000
They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They grope [in] the dark {without} light, and he makes them stagger like a drunkard.
Modern King James verseion
They grope in the dark without light, and He makes them to stagger like a drunkard.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and grope in the dark without light, staggering to and fro like drunken men.
NET Bible
They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.
New Heart English Bible
They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
Webster
They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
World English Bible
They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
Youngs Literal Translation
They feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to wander as a drunkard.
Themes
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 12:25
Verse Info
Context Readings
If You Want To Learn
24 Who taketh away the sense of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and hath caused them to wander in a pathless waste: 25 They grope about in the dark, having no light, and He hath made them to reel, like a drunken man.
Cross References
Job 5:14
By day, they encounter darkness, and, as though it were night, they grope at high noon.
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.
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.