Parallel Verses
King James 2000
They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them to stagger 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.
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.
Themes
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 12:25
Verse Info
Context Readings
If You Want To Learn
24 He takes away the heart of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way. 25 They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man.
Cross References
Job 5:14
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
Psalm 107:27
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
Isaiah 19:14
The LORD has mixed a perverse spirit in its midst: and they have caused Egypt to err in her every work, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
Isaiah 24:20
The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a hut; and its transgression shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
Genesis 19:11
And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves trying to find the door.
Deuteronomy 28:29
And you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and plundered continually, and no man shall save you.
Isaiah 59:10
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; we are in desolate places as dead men.
Acts 13:11
And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a time. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.
1 John 2:11
But he that hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and knows not where he goes, because that darkness has blinded his eyes.