Parallel Verses

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

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

of the wicked
רשׁע 
Rasha` 
Usage: 263

is as darkness
אפלה 
'aphelah 
Usage: 10

Context Readings

The Right Path

18 But the path of the just is as the light of the morning star, that shines more and more until the day is perfect. 19 The way of the wicked is like darkness;
They do not know over what they stumble.
20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my words.

Cross References

Isaiah 59:9-10

Therefore judgment has withdrawn from us, and righteousness has never overtaken us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

John 12:35

Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the Light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you; for he that walks in darkness does not know where he goes.

Jeremiah 23:12

Therefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness; they shall be driven on and fall therein; for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.

1 Samuel 2:9

He keeps the feet of his saints, and the wicked perish in darkness, for no man shall prevail by their own strength.

Job 18:5-6

The light of the wicked shall certainly be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

Job 5:14

They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope in the noonday as in the night.

Job 12:25

They grope in the darkness and not the light, and he causes them to err like drunken men.

Job 18:18

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

Proverbs 2:13

who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the LORD your God before he causes darkness and before your feet stumble in mountains of darkness, and while ye look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death and makes it gross darkness.

Matthew 7:23

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

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into a pit.

John 11:10

But he who walks in the night stumbles because there is no light in him.

1 John 2:11

But he that hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness and does not know where he goes, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

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