Job 12:25
Strong's Lexicon
They grope
יְמַֽשְׁשׁוּ־ (yə·maš·šū-)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4959: 1) to feel, grope 1a) (Qal) to feel, grope 1b) (Piel) to feel over or through, grope 1b1) to feel through 1b2) to grope 1c)(Hiphil) to feel

in darkness
חֹ֥שֶׁךְ (ḥō·šeḵ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2822: 1) darkness, obscurity 1a) darkness 1b) secret place

with no
וְלֹא־ (wə·lō-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: 1) not, no 1a) not (with verb-absolute prohibition) 1b) not (with modifier-negation) 1c) nothing (subst) 1d) without (with particle) 1e) before (of time)

light;
א֑וֹר (’ō·wr)
Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 216: 1) light 1a) light of day 1b) light of heavenly luminaries (moon, sun, stars) 1c) day-break, dawn, morning light 1d) daylight 1e) lightning 1f) light of lamp 1g) light of life 1h) light of prosperity 1i) light of instruction 1j) light of face (fig.) 1k) Jehovah as Israel's light

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: 1) to err, wander, go astray, stagger 1a) (Qal) to err 1a1) to wander about (physically) 1a2) of intoxication 1a3) of sin (ethically) 1a4) wandering (of the mind) 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be made to wander about, be made to stagger (drunkard) 1b2) to be led astray (ethically) 1c) (Hiphil) to cause to wander 1c1) to cause to wander about (physically) 1c2) to cause to wander (of intoxication) 1c3) to cause to err, mislead (mentally and morally)

like drunkards.
כַּשִּׁכּֽוֹר׃ (kaš·šik·kō·wr)
Preposition-k, Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7910: 1) drunken 1a) drunken 1b) drunkard, drunken one (subst)

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.

Young's Literal Translation
They feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to wander as a drunkard.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They grope around in darkness without  light; He makes them stagger like  drunken men. 

New American Standard Bible
"They grope in darkness with no light, And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

King James Bible
They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like [a] drunken [man].
Parallel Verses
New International Version
They grope in darkness with no light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.

New Living Translation
They grope in the darkness without a light. He makes them stagger like drunkards.

English Standard Version
They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.

New American Standard Bible
"They grope in darkness with no light, And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They grope around in darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunken men.

International Standard Version
They grope in the dark without light; he causes them to stagger around like a drunkard."

NET Bible
They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.

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

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

Young's Literal Translation
They feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to wander as a drunkard.
















Cross References
Job 5:14
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

Job 18:6
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

Psalm 107:27
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

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.

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Job 12:24
He 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.

Job 12:23
He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.

Job 12:22
He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

Job 13:1
Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.

Job 13:2
What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

Job 13:3
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
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