We grope for the wall like the blind, &c.] We are wholly destitute of counsell; and can find no issue out of our miseries, Deuteronomy 28:29. Job 5:14. Lamentations 4:14. we stumble at noon day as in the night] Heb. twilight. or, evening. Proverbs 7:9. we are in desolate places as dead men] Or, in fat places. Genesis 27:28; Genesis 27:39. That is, we are in a miserable condition; our whole land being wasted, Chap. 1. 7. Or, though in plenty of outward means, yet having no comfort of them, or freedome to enjoy them; by reason of our calamities otherwise, Job 20:22. Chap. 24. 9. being no better then dead men, Psalms 44:19. & 88. 4, - 6. Eccl. 5. 17. & 6. 2, 3.