Proverbs 4:19

In 11 translations

BSB

But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.

KJV

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

WEB

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

ASV

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

LSV

The way of the wicked [is] as darkness, || They have not known at what they stumble.

YLT

The way of the wicked [is] as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.

DBY

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

DRC

The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall.

GNV

The way of the wicked is as the darkenes: they knowe not wherein they shall fall.

JPS

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

LXXE

But the ways of the ungodly are dark; they know not how they stumble.

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Original-language editions

WLC

דֶּ֣רֶךְ רְ֭שָׁעִים כָּֽאֲפֵלָ֑ה לֹ֥א יָ֝דְע֗וּ בַּמֶּ֥ה יִכָּשֵֽׁלוּ׃

LXX-Br

Αἱ δὲ ὁδοὶ τῶν ἀσεβῶν σκοτειναὶ, οὐκ οἴδασι πῶς προσκόπτουσιν.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

• John 12:35Then Jesus told them, “For a little while longer, the Light will be among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
• Isaiah 59:9–10Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom. Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those…
• Jeremiah 23:12“Therefore their path will become slick; they will be driven away into the darkness and fall into it. For I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.
• Job 18:5–6Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow. The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
• 1 Samuel 2:9He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.
• Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
• John 11:10But if anyone walks at night, he will stumble, because he has no light.”
• Matthew 7:23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’
• Proverbs 2:13from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,
• Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
• Job 5:14They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
• Job 12:25They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.
• Matthew 15:14Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”
• 1 John 2:11But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

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