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Job 12:25
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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 12:25
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 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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