Proverbs 4:19
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The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
In other translations
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
Hebrew words
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- John 12:35Then 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.Then 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 59:9-109 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. 10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.9 Therefore 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. 10 Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.
- Jeremiah 23:12Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.“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 18:5-65 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. 6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.5 Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow. 6 The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
- 1 Samuel 2:9He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.He 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 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.Give 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.
- Proverbs 2:13Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,
- Job 18:18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
- Job 12:25They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.
- John 11:10But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.But if anyone walks at night, he will stumble, because he has no light.”
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