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Bible in Basic English

Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them.

New American Standard Bible

Others have been with those who rebel against the light;
They do not want to know its ways
Nor abide in its paths.

King James Version

They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

Holman Bible

The wicked are those who rebel against the light.
They do not recognize its ways
or stay on its paths.

International Standard Version

"Then there are those who rebel against the light; they are not acquainted with its ways; and they don't stay on its course.

A Conservative Version

These are of those who rebel against the light. They do not know the ways of it, nor abide in the paths of it.

American Standard Version

These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, Nor abide in the paths thereof.

Amplified


“Others have been with those who rebel against the light;
They do not want to know its ways
Nor stay in its paths.

Darby Translation

There are those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

Julia Smith Translation

They were among the rebels of light; they knew not his ways, and they dwelt not in his beaten paths.

King James 2000

They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.

Lexham Expanded Bible

"Those are among [the ones] rebelling [against the] light; they do not recognize his ways, and they do not stay in his paths.

Modern King James verseion

They are of those who rebel against the light; they know not His ways, nor stay in His paths.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

whereas they, notwithstanding, are rebellious and disobedient enemies: which seek not his light and way, nor turn again in to his path.

NET Bible

There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths.

New Heart English Bible

"These are of those who rebel against the light. They do not know its ways, nor abide in its paths.

The Emphasized Bible

They, have become rebels against the light, - they are not acquainted with the ways thereof, neither abide they in the paths thereof.

Webster

They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.

World English Bible

"These are of those who rebel against the light. They don't know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

Youngs Literal Translation

They have been among rebellious ones of light, They have not discerned His ways, Nor abode in His paths.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מרד 
Marad 
Usage: 25

אור 
'owr 
Usage: 122

נכר 
Nakar 
Usage: 49

not the ways
דּרך 
Derek 
Usage: 704

ישׁב 
Yashab 
Usage: 1081

in the paths
נתבה נתיבה נתיב 
Nathiyb 
Usage: 26

Context Readings

Job's Eighth Speech, Continued

12 From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer. 13 Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them. 14 He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

Cross References

John 3:19-20

And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.

Job 23:11-12

My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other.

Proverbs 4:19

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

Luke 12:47-48

And the servant who had knowledge of his lord's desires and was not ready for him and did not do as he was ordered, will be given a great number of blows;

John 8:31

Then Jesus said to the Jews who had faith in him, If you keep my word, then you are truly my disciples;

John 8:44

You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

John 9:39-41

And Jesus said, I came into this world to be a judge, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.

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.

John 12:40

He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well.

John 15:6

If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.

John 15:22-24

If I had not come and been their teacher they would have had no sin: but now they have no reason to give for their sin.

Romans 1:32

Who, though they have knowledge of the law of God, that the fate of those who do these things is death, not only go on doing these things themselves, but give approval to those who do them.

Romans 2:17-24

But as for you who have the name of Jew, and are resting on the law, and take pride in God,

Romans 3:11-17

Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation.

James 4:17

The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

2 Peter 2:20-22

For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.

Jude 1:6

And the angels who did not keep to their kingdom but went out from the place which was theirs, he has put in eternal chains and in dark night till the great day of the judging.

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