Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and grope in the dark without light, staggering to and fro like drunken men.
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.
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 changeth the heart of the princes and kings of the earth, and disapointeth them; so that they go wandering out of the way, 25 and grope in the dark without light, staggering to and fro like drunken men.
Cross References
Job 5:14
Insomuch that they run into darkness by fair day, and grope about them at the noonday, like as in the night.
Psalm 107:27
They reel to and fro, they stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
Isaiah 19:14
For the LORD hath made Egypt drunken with the spirit of error, and they shall use it in all matters: even like as a drunken man goeth spewing about.
Isaiah 24:20
The earth shall stagger like a drunkard, to and fro; and be taken away like a tent. Her misdeeds shall lie so heavy upon her, that she must fall, and never rise up again.
Genesis 19:11
And the men that were at the door of the house, they smote with blindness - both small and great, so that they could not find the door.
Deuteronomy 28:29
And thou shalt grope at noonday as the blind gropeth in darkness, and shalt not come to the right way. And thou shalt suffer violence and wrong all thy life long, and no man shall help thee.
Isaiah 59:10
We grope like the blind upon the wall, we grope even as one that hath none eyes. We stumble at the noonday, as though it were toward night; in the falling places, like men that are half dead.
Acts 13:11
And now behold the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind and not see the sun for a season." And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; And he went about, seeking them that should lead him by the hand.
1 John 2:11
And he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness; and knoweth not whither he goeth, for darkness hath blinded his eyes.