Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“They grope in darkness with no light,
And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

They grope around in darkness without light;
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.

The Emphasized Bible

They grope about in the dark, having no light, and He hath made them to reel, 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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
משׁשׁ 
Mashash 
Usage: 9

in the dark
חשׁך 
Choshek 
Usage: 78

אור 
'owr 
Usage: 122

and he maketh them to stagger
תּעה 
Ta`ah 
Usage: 50

שׁכּר שׁכּור 
Shikkowr 
Usage: 13

References

Hastings

Job

Context Readings

If You Want To Learn

24 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth and makes them wander in a pathless waste. 25 “They grope in darkness with no light,
And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

Cross References

Job 5:14

They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night.

Psalm 107:27

they reeled and staggered like drunken men and were at their wits' end.

Isaiah 19:14

The LORD has mingled within her a spirit of confusion, and they will make Egypt stagger in all its deeds, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

Isaiah 24:20

The earth staggers like a drunken man; it sways like a hut; its transgression lies heavy upon it, and it falls, and will not rise again.

Genesis 19:11

And they struck with blindness the men who were at the entrance of the house, both small and great, so that they wore themselves out groping for the door.

Deuteronomy 28:29

and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you.

Isaiah 59:10

We grope for the wall like the blind; we grope like those who have no eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among those in full vigor we are like dead men.

Acts 13:11

And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and unable to see the sun for a time." Immediately mist and darkness fell upon him, and he went about seeking people to lead him by the hand.

1 John 2:11

But whoever 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.

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