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Job 12

Job 12:25 KJV (With Strong’s)

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They grope
mashash (Hebrew #4959)
to feel of; by implication, to grope
KJV usage: feel, grope, search.
Pronounce: maw-shash'
Origin: a primitive root
p in the dark
choshek (Hebrew #2822)
the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
KJV usage: dark(-ness), night, obscurity.
Pronounce: kho-shek'
Origin: from 2821
without light
'owr (Hebrew #216)
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
KJV usage: bright, clear, + day, light (-ning), morning, sun.
Pronounce: ore
Origin: from 215
, and he maketh them to λstagger
ta`ah (Hebrew #8582)
to vacillate, i.e. reel or stray (literally or figuratively); also causative of both
KJV usage: (cause to) go astray, deceive, dissemble, (cause to, make to) err, pant, seduce, (make to) stagger, (cause to) wander, be out of the way.
Pronounce: taw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
like a drunken
shikkowr (Hebrew #7910)
from 7937; intoxicated, as a state or a habit
KJV usage: drunk(-ard, -en, -en man).
Pronounce: shik-kore'
Origin: or shikkor {shik-kore'}
man.
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Deut. 28:29• 29and 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 continually, and there shall be none to save. (Deut. 28:29)
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wander.

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grope.
Job 5:14• 14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as in the night. (Job 5:14)
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Gen. 19:11• 11And they smote the men that were at the entrance of the house with blindness, from the smallest to the greatest; and they wearied themselves to find the entrance. (Gen. 19:11)
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Deut. 28:29• 29and 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 continually, and there shall be none to save. (Deut. 28:29)
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Isa. 59:10• 10We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at midday as in the twilight; amongst the flourishing we are as the dead. (Isa. 59:10)
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Acts 13:11• 11And now behold, the Lord's hand is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell upon him a mist and darkness; and going about he sought persons who should lead him by the hand. (Acts 13:11)
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1 John 2:11• 11But he that hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and knows not where he goes, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. (1 John 2:11)
maketh.
Psa. 107:27• 27They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and they are at their wits' end: (Psa. 107:27)
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Isa. 19:14• 14Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst thereof; and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunkard staggereth in his vomit. (Isa. 19:14)
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Isa. 24:20• 20The earth reeleth to and fro like a drunkard, and is shaken like a night hut; and its transgression is heavy upon it; and it falleth and shall not rise again. (Isa. 24:20)
stagger.
Heb. wander.

J. N. Darby Translation

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

JND Translation Notes

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Or "wander."