Job 12:25
Modern Translations
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.

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

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

NASB 1995
"They grope in darkness with no light, And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

NASB 1977
“They grope in darkness with no light, And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

Amplified Bible
“They grope in darkness without light, And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.”

Christian Standard Bible
They grope around in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like a drunkard.

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

Contemporary English Version
lost in the dark, staggering like someone drunk.

Good News Translation
they grope in the dark and stagger like drunkards.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They grope in the dark with no light, and he makes them stumble like drunks.

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

New King James Version
They grope in the dark without light, And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

King James 2000 Bible
They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man.

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

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

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

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

A Faithful Version
They grope in the dark without light, and He makes them to stagger like a drunken man."

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
They grope in the darke without light: and he maketh the to stagger like a drunken ma.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
They grope in the darke without light, and he maketh them to stacker like a drunken man.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
and grope in the darke without light, stackeringe to and fro like droncken men.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
They feel darkness, and not light, "" He causes them to wander as a drunkard.”

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

Smith's Literal Translation
They will feel darkness and not light, and he will cause them to wander as one intoxicated.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall grope as in the dark, and not in the light, and he shall make them stagger like men that are drunk.

Catholic Public Domain Version
They will grope as in the darkness, not the light, and he will make them stagger like drunkards.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
They will search in darkness and not in the light, and they will grope in the darkness and not the light, and he inebriates them like drunkards

Lamsa Bible
They search in darkness without light, and they grope in darkness without understanding; and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
They grope in the dark without light, And He maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

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
















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