Job 12:25 · KJV
“They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like {a} drunken {man}. {stagger: Heb. wander}”
— Job 12:25
Job 12 — Context
He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them {again}. {straiteneth: Heb. leadeth in}
24He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness {where there is} no way.
25They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like {a} drunken {man}. {stagger: Heb. wander}
Cross References
Job 5:14
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. {meet...: or, run into}
Psalms 107:27
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end. {are...: Heb. all their wisdom is swallowed up}
Isaiah 24:20
The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
Isaiah 19:14
The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken {man} staggereth in his vomit. {a perverse...: Heb. a spirit of perversities}
Deuteronomy 28:29
And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save {thee}.
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 to find the door.
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 night; {we are} in desolate places as dead {men}.
1 John 2:11
But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.