KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 12:23–25
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Job 12:23
23He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.
23He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: hee inlargeth the nations, and †straiteneth them againe.
- Heb. leadeth in.
Job 12:24
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.
24He taketh away the heart of the chiefe of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wildernes where there is no way.
Job 12:25
25They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
25They grope in the darke without light, and hee maketh them to †stagger like a drunken man.
- Heb. wander.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 12:23
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
destroyeth
To ruin, demolish, kill, consume, or bring to an end.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Another time; once more; back to a former place or condition; or in return.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Job 12:24
To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893
The bodily organ; more often in Scripture, the inward person—the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character—according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Principal, foremost, highest in rank or importance; also a leader.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The ground or dry land; the world or inhabited realm; or a country and its people, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
To move or roam without a settled course or place.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Job 12:25
To search by feeling in the dark.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Destitute of light; obscure. Obscure; concealed; secret; not understood. Darkness; obscurity; the absence of light. Obscurity; a state of ignorance.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Outside; not within; lacking; free from; or in the absence of.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Visible brightness; something that gives illumination; not heavy; to kindle, illuminate, or come down upon, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To form, create, produce, cause, appoint, perform, or render into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893
To stumble, waver, hesitate, or reel.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
Intoxicated with strong drink; overcome or affected as by intoxication, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 23
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Open the full verse study3Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
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Open the full verse study15Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
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Open the full verse study22A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time.
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Open the full verse study38He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
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Open the full verse study20Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
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Open the full verse study7¶ And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
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Open the full verse study6He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
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Open the full verse study2Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
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Open the full verse study19And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
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Open the full verse study22As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
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Open the full verse study8I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased.
From verse 24
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Open the full verse study40He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
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Open the full verse study20He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
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Open the full verse study11¶ Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
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Open the full verse study16Let his heart be changed from man’s, and let a beast’s heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.
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Open the full verse study33The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.
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Open the full verse study1THE burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
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Open the full verse study9¶ And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
10Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
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Open the full verse study4For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
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Open the full verse study4They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
From verse 25
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Open the full verse study14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
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Open the full verse study27They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.
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Open the full verse study20The 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.
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Open the full verse study14The 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.
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Open the full verse study11But 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.
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Open the full verse study29And 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.
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Open the full verse study11And 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.
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Open the full verse study10We 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.
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Open the full verse study11And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.
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