Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

The way of the wicked is as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.

New American Standard Bible

The way of the wicked is like darkness;
They do not know over what they stumble.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom;
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.

Bible in Basic English

The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
The way
דּרך 
Derek 
Usage: 704

of the wicked
רשׁע 
Rasha` 
Usage: 263

is as darkness
אפלה 
'aphelah 
Usage: 10

Context Readings

The Right Path

18 And the path of the righteous is as a shining light, Going and brightening till the day is established, 19 The way of the wicked is as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble. 20 My son, to my words give attention, To my sayings incline thine ear,


Cross References

Isaiah 59:9-10

Therefore hath judgment been far from us, And righteousness reacheth us not, We wait for light, and lo, darkness, For brightness -- in thick darkness we go,

John 12:35

Jesus, therefore, said to them, 'Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness hath not known where he goeth;

Jeremiah 23:12

Therefore is their way to them as slippery places, Into thick darkness they are driven, And they have fallen in it, For I bring in against them evil, The year of their inspection, An affirmation of Jehovah.

1 Samuel 2:9

The feet of His saints He keepeth, And the wicked in darkness are silent, For not by power doth man become mighty.

Job 18:5-6

Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.

Job 5:14

By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.

Job 12:25

They feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to wander as a drunkard.

Job 18:18

They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

Proverbs 2:13

Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,

Jeremiah 13:16

Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed it for thick darkness.

Matthew 7:23

and then I will acknowledge to them, that -- I never knew you, depart from me ye who are working lawlessness.

Matthew 15:14

let them alone, guides they are -- blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'

John 11:10

and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.'

1 John 2:11

and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.

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