Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
The way of the wicked is as darkness. They know not at what they stumble.
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.
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
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 4:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Right Path
18 But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light, that shines more and more to the perfect day. 19 The way of the wicked is as darkness. They know not at what they stumble. 20 My son, attend to my words. Incline thine ear to my sayings.
Cross References
Isaiah 59:9-10
Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us. We look for light, but, behold, darkness, for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
John 12:35
Jesus therefore said to them, Yet a little time the light is with you. Walk while ye have the light, so that darkness may not overcome you. And he who walks in the darkness knows not where he is going.
Jeremiah 23:12
Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They shall be driven on, and fall in it. For I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, says LORD.
1 Samuel 2:9
He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness, for by strength no man shall prevail.
Job 18:5-6
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
Job 5:14
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.
Job 12:25
They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man.
Job 18:18
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Proverbs 2:13
who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains. 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 to them, I never acknowledged you. Depart from me, ye who work lawlessness.
Matthew 15:14
Leave them. They are blind leaders of blind men, and if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a ditch.
John 11:10
But if any man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.
1 John 2:11
But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and he goes about in the darkness, and knows not where he goes, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.