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Job 12:25

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12:25They grope about in darkness63 without light;

he makes them stagger64 like drunkards.

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Footnotes

  1. 63 The word is an adverbial accusative.
  2. 64 The verb is the same that was in v. 24, “He makes them [the leaders still] wander” (the Hiphil of תָּעָה, ta’ah). But in this passage some commentators emend the text to a Niphal of the verb and put it in the plural, to get the reading “they reel to and fro.” But even if the verse closes the chapter and there is no further need for a word of divine causation, the Hiphil sense works well here—causing people to wander like a drunken man would be the same as making them stagger.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

They grope in the dark without light,

and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

They grope in darkness with no light;

he makes them stagger like drunkards.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

They grope around in darkness without light;

he makes them stagger like a drunkard.

NLTNew Living Translation

They grope in the darkness without a light.

He makes them stagger like drunkards.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

They grope in the dark without light,

and he makes them stagger like a drunkard.

KJV 1900King James Version

They grope in the dark without light,

And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.