Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
They grope [in] the dark {without} light, and he makes them stagger like a drunkard.
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.
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 12:25
Verse Info
Context Readings
If You Want To Learn
24 He strips [away] the insight of the heads of the earth's people, and he makes them wander in {a pathless wasteland}. 25 They grope [in] the dark {without} light, and he makes them stagger like a drunkard.
Cross References
Job 5:14
In the daytime they meet [with] darkness, and they grope at noon as [in] the night.
Psalm 107:27
They reeled and staggered like a drunkard, and {they were at their wits' end}.
Isaiah 19:14
Yahweh has mixed a spirit of confusion into her midst, and they have caused Egypt to stagger in all of its doings, as {when a drunkard staggers} in his vomit.
Isaiah 24:20
[The] earth staggers to and fro like the drunkard, and it sways like hut, and its transgression is heavy upon it, and it falls and does not rise again.
Genesis 19:11
And the men who [were] at the entrance of the house they struck with blindness, both small and great, and they were unable to find the entrance.
Deuteronomy 28:29
And you shall be groping at noon just as the blind person gropes in the dark, and you shall not succeed [in finding] your way, and you shall only be abused and robbed {all the time}, and there will not be {anyone who will rescue you}.
Isaiah 59:10
We grope like the blind [along] a wall, and we grope {as without} eyes. We stumble at noon as [in] the twilight; among the strong [we are] like the dead.
Acts 13:11
And now behold, the hand of the Lord [is] against you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun {for a while}. And immediately mist and darkness fell over him, and he was going around looking for [people] to 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.