Proverbs 4:19
What does Proverbs 4:19 mean?
A plain-English look at Proverbs 4:19 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.
KJV
King James Version · 1611The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862The way of the wicked <FI>is<Fi> as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Context
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.
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