Deuteronomy 28:29

You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.

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WEBBE

You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.

BSB

and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.

KJV

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.

ASV

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 robbed alway, and there shall be none to save thee.

BBE

You will go feeling your way when the sun is high, like a blind man for whom all is dark, and nothing will go well for you: you will be crushed and made poor for ever, and you will have no saviour.

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וְהָיִיתָ ve·ha·yi·ta and you will be H1961 מְמַשֵּׁשׁ me·ma·shesh groping H4959 בַּצָּהֳרַיִם ba·tzo·ho·ra·yim in the noontide(s) H6672 כַּאֲשֶׁר ka·'a·sher just as H834 יְמַשֵּׁשׁ ye·ma·shesh he gropes H4959 הָעִוֵּר ha·'i·ver (the) blind [person] H5787 בָּאֲפֵלָה ba·'a·fe·lah in the darkness H653 וְלֹא ve·lo' and not H3808 תַצְלִיחַ tatz·li·ach you will make successful H6743 אֶת־ 'et- (marks the object) H853 דְּרָכֶיךָ de·ra·khei·kha ways your H1870 וְהָיִיתָ ve·ha·yi·ta and you will be H1961 אַךְ 'akh only H389 עָשׁוּק 'a·shuk oppressed H6231 וְגָזוּל ve·ga·zul and robbed H1497 כָּל־ kol- all H3605 הַיָּמִים hai·ya·mim the days H3117 וְאֵין ve·'ein and there not H369 מוֹשִׁיעַ mo·shi·a' [will be] a deliverer H3467

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 15–44

If we do not keep God's commandments, we not only come short of the blessing promised, but we lay ourselves under the curse, which includes all misery, as the blessing all happiness. Observe the justice of this curse. It is not a curse causeless, or for some light cause. The extent and power of this curse. Wherever the sinner goes, the curse of God follows; wherever he is, it rests upon him. Whatever he has is under a curse. All his enjoyments are made bitter; he cannot take any true comfort in them, for the wrath of God mixes itself with them. Many judgments are here stated, which would be the fruits of the curse, and with which God would punish the people of the Jews, for their apostacy and disobedience. We may observe the fulfilling of these threatenings in their present state. To complete their misery, it is threatened that by these troubles they should be bereaved of all comfort and hope, and left to utter despair. Those who walk by sight, and not by faith, are in danger of losing reason itself, when every thing about them looks frightful.

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