Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.
New American Standard Bible
They do not know over what they
King James Version
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Holman Bible
they don’t know what makes them stumble.
International Standard Version
But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness, and they do not know what they are stumbling over.
A Conservative Version
The way of the wicked is as darkness. They know not at what they stumble.
American Standard Version
The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.
Amplified
The way of the wicked is like [deep] darkness;
They do not know over what they stumble.
Darby Translation
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Julia Smith Translation
The way of the unjust as darkness: they shall not know in what they shall stumble.
King James 2000
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The way of the wicked ones [is] like deep darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.
Modern King James verseion
The way of the wicked is as darkness; they know not at what they stumble.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But the way of the ungodly is as the darkness, wherein men fall, or they be aware.
NET Bible
The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what causes them to stumble.
New Heart English Bible
The way of the wicked is like darkness. They do not know what they stumble over.
The Emphasized Bible
The way of the lawless, is like darkness, they know not, at what they stumble.
Webster
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
World English Bible
The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.
Youngs Literal Translation
The way of the wicked is as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 4:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Right Path
18 But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day. 19 The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall. 20 My son, give attention to my words; let your ear be turned to my sayings.
Cross References
Isaiah 59:9-10
For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.
John 12:35
Jesus said to them, For a little time longer the light will be among you; while you have the light go on walking in it, so that the dark may not overtake you: one walking in the dark has no knowledge of where he is going.
Jeremiah 23:12
For this cause their steps will be slipping on their way: they will be forced on into the dark and have a fall there: for I will send evil on them in the year of their punishment, says the Lord.
1 Samuel 2:9
He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the evil-doers will come to their end in the dark night, for by strength no man will overcome.
Job 18:5-6
For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.
Job 5:14
In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.
Job 12:25
They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.
Job 18:18
He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.
Proverbs 2:13
Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;
Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.
Matthew 7:23
And then will I say to them, I never had knowledge of you: go from me, you workers of evil.
Matthew 15:14
Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.
John 11:10
But if a man goes about in the night, he may have a fall because the light is not in him.
1 John 2:11
But he who has hate for his brother is in the dark, walking in the dark with no knowledge of where he is going, unable to see because of the dark.