Proverbs 4:19

Proverbs chapter 4 · verse 19 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.18But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light, That shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

v.19This passage

v.20My son, attend to my words; Incline thine ear unto my sayings.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 59:9

    Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

  • Job 18:18

    He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

  • Matthew 7:23

    And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

  • John 12:35

    Jesus therefore said unto them, Yet a little while is the light among you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness overtake you not: and he that walketh in the darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

  • Job 5:14

    They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.

  • John 11:10

    But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.