They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.
Cross References
Job 5:14They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
Job 18:6The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
Psalm 107:27They reeled and staggered like drunkards, and all their skill was useless.
Isaiah 24:20The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a shack. Earth's rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise again.
Treasury of Scripture
They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man.
grope
Job 5:14
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
Genesis 19:11
And 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.
Deuteronomy 28:29
And 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.
maketh
Psalm 107:27
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
Isaiah 19:14
The 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.
Isaiah 24:20
The 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.
stagger.