Job 12:25
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They shall grope as in the dark, and not in the light, and he shall make them stagger like men that are drunk.

Job 5:14
They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night.

Job 18:6
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him, shall be put out.

Psalm 107:27
They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their wisdom was swallowed up.

Isaiah 24:20
With shaking shall the earth be shaken as a drunken man, and shall be removed as the tent of one night: and the iniquity thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.

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They shall grope as in the dark, and not in the light, and he shall make them stagger like men that are drunk.

grope

Job 5:14 They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night.

Genesis 19:11 And them, that were without, they struck with blindness from the least to the greatest, so that they could not find the door.

Deuteronomy 28:29 And mayst thou grope at midday as the blind is wont to grope in the dark, and not make straight thy ways. And mayst thou at all times suffer wrong, and be oppressed with violence, and mayst thou have no one to deliver thee.

Isaiah 59:10 We have groped for the wall, and like the blind we have groped as if we had no eyes: we have stumbled at noonday as in darkness, we are in dark places, as dead men.

Acts 13:11 And now behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee: and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a time. And immediately there fell a mist and darkness upon him: and going about, he sought some one to lead him by the hand.

1 John 2:11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness and walketh in darkness and knoweth not whither he goeth: because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.

maketh

Psalm 107:27 They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their wisdom was swallowed up.

Isaiah 19:14 The Lord hath mingled in the midst thereof the spirit of giddiness: and they have caused Egypt to err in all its works, as a drunken man staggereth and vomiteth.

Isaiah 24:20 With shaking shall the earth be shaken as a drunken man, and shall be removed as the tent of one night: and the iniquity thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.

stagger.

Context
Job Responds to Zophar
24He changeth the heart of the princes of the people of the earth, and deceiveth them that they walk in vain where there is no way. 25They shall grope as in the dark, and not in the light, and he shall make them stagger like men that are drunk.
Lexicon
They grope
יְמַֽשְׁשׁוּ־ (yə·maš·šū-)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4959: To feel of, to grope

in darkness
חֹ֥שֶׁךְ (ḥō·šeḵ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2822: The dark, darkness, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness

with no
וְלֹא־ (wə·lō-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

light;
א֑וֹר (’ō·wr)
Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 216: Illumination, luminary

He makes them stagger
וַ֝יַּתְעֵ֗ם (way·yaṯ·‘êm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8582: To vacillate, reel, stray

like drunkards.
כַּשִּׁכּֽוֹר׃ (kaš·šik·kō·wr)
Preposition-k, Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7910: Intoxicated, as a, state, a habit


Additional Translations
They grope in darkness with no light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man.

They grope in the dark without light; And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

Let them grope in darkness, and let there be no light, and let them wander as a drunken man.

They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunkard.

They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

They feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to wander as a drunkard.
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