Verse 25
Job 12:25
Bible in Basic English
25
They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.
Original Language Text
hebrew
יְמַֽשְׁשׁוּ חֹ֥שֶׁךְ וְ/לֹא א֑וֹר וַ֝/יַּתְעֵ֗/ם כַּ/שִּׁכּֽוֹר
English Translation
They will feel darkness and not light, and they will wander like the blind.
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Chapter 12 Context
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And Job made answer and said,
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No doubt you have knowledge, and wisdom will come to an end with you.
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But I have a mind as well as you; I am equal to you: yes, who has not knowledge of such things as th...
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It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his praye...
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In the thought of him who is in comfort there is no respect for one who is in trouble; such is the f...
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There is wealth in the tents of those who make destruction, and those by whom God (Elohim) is moved...
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But put now a question to the beasts, and get teaching from them; or to the birds of the heaven, and...
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Or to the things which go flat on the earth, and they will give you wisdom; and the fishes of the se...
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Who does not see by all these that the hand of the Lord has done this?
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In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh of man.
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Are not words tested by the ear, even as food is tasted by the mouth?
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Old men have wisdom, and a long life gives knowledge.
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With him there is wisdom and strength; power and knowledge are his.
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Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one m...
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Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.
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With him are strength and wise designs; he who is guided into error, together with his guide, are in...
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He takes away the wisdom of the wise guides, and makes judges foolish;
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He undoes the chains of kings, and puts his band on them;
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He makes priests prisoners, overturning those in safe positions;
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He makes the words of responsible persons without effect, and takes away the good sense of the old;
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He puts shame on chiefs, and takes away the power of the strong;
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Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;
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Increasing nations, and sending destruction on them; making wide the lands of peoples, and then givi...
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He takes away the wisdom of the rulers of the earth, and sends them wandering in a waste where there...
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They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with win...