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Proverbs 4:19

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

KJV

Via impiorum tenebrosa ; nesciunt ubi corruant.

Vulgate

αἱ δὲ ὁδοὶ τῶν ἀσεβῶν σκοτειναί, οὐκ οἴδασιν πῶς προσκόπτουσιν.

LXX

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

ASV

דֶּ֣רֶךְ רְ֭שָׁעִים כָּֽ/אֲפֵלָ֑ה לֹ֥א יָ֝דְע֗וּ בַּ/מֶּ֥ה יִכָּשֵֽׁלוּ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֲפֵלָ֔ה
'plh
noun · 10×
דֶּ֣רֶךְ
drk
noun · 709×
יִכָּשְׁל֖וּ
ykshlv
verb · 64×
יָדְע֖וּ
yd'v
verb · 944×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
מַה
mh
particle · 745×
רְשָׁעִ֣ים
rsh'ym
adjective · 257×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1John 2:11 — 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.
  • 1Sam 2:9 — He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
  • Deut 32:35 — To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
  • Exod 10:21 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
  • Isa 59:9 — 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.
  • Jer 13:16 — 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 da
  • Jer 13:16 — 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 da
  • Jer 23:12 — Wherefore 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.
  • Jer 23:12 — Wherefore 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.
  • Job 5:14 — They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
  • Job 5:14 — They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
  • Job 12:25 — They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
  • Job 18:5 — Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
  • Job 18:5 — Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
  • Job 18:18 — He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
  • Job 19:8 — He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
  • Job 24:13 — They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
  • Job 38:15 — And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
  • John 11:10 — But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
  • John 12:35 — 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.
  • Matt 7:23 — And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
  • Nah 1:8 — But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
  • Prov 2:13 — Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
  • Prov 2:13 — Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
  • Prov 4:12 — When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
  • Prov 13:15 — Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.
  • Ps 1:1 — Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
  • Ps 35:6 — Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.
  • Ps 82:5 — They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.