Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

General references

Bible References

Darkness

Job 12:25

“They grope in darkness without light,
And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.”
Deuteronomy 28:29
and you will be groping at noon [in broad daylight], just as the blind grope in the darkness, and nothing you do will prosper; but you will only be oppressed and exploited and robbed continually, with no one to save you.
Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is like [deep] darkness;
They do not know over what they stumble.
Isaiah 59:10

We grope for a wall like the blind,
We grope like those who have no eyes.
We stumble at midday as in the twilight;
Among those who are healthy we are like dead men.
Amos 8:9

“It shall come about in that day,” says the Lord God,
“That I shall cause the sun to go down at noon,
And I shall darken the earth in broad daylight.

General references

2 Samuel 11:9
But Uriah slept at the entrance of the king’s palace with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.
Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is like [deep] darkness;
They do not know over what they stumble.