10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

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10 Like the blind(A) we grope along the wall,
    feeling our way like people without eyes.
At midday we stumble(B) as if it were twilight;
    among the strong, we are like the dead.(C)

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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.

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29 At midday you will grope(A) about like a blind person in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue(B) you.

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He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

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He has made me dwell in darkness
    like those long dead.(A)

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14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

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14 Darkness(A) comes upon them in the daytime;
    at noon they grope as in the night.(B)

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11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

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11 But anyone who hates a brother or sister(A) is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness.(B) They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them.(C)

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40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

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40 “He has blinded their eyes
    and hardened their hearts,
so they can neither see with their eyes,
    nor understand with their hearts,
    nor turn—and I would heal them.”[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. John 12:40 Isaiah 6:10

35 Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

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35 Then Jesus told them, “You are going to have the light(A) just a little while longer. Walk while you have the light,(B) before darkness overtakes you.(C) Whoever walks in the dark does not know where they are going.

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Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.

10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.

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Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Anyone who walks in the daytime will not stumble, for they see by this world’s light.(A) 10 It is when a person walks at night that they stumble, for they have no light.”

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And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:

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“In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord,

“I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.(A)

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14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

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14 Now they grope through the streets
    as if they were blind.(A)
They are so defiled with blood(B)
    that no one dares to touch their garments.

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16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

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16 Give glory(A) to the Lord your God
    before he brings the darkness,
before your feet stumble(B)
    on the darkening hills.
You hope for light,
    but he will turn it to utter darkness
    and change it to deep gloom.(C)

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15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

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15 Many of them will stumble;(A)
    they will fall and be broken,
    they will be snared and captured.”

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19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

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19 But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness;(A)
    they do not know what makes them stumble.(B)

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