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 righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day. 19 The way of the wicked is like darkness;
They do not know over what they stumble.
20 My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

Cross References

Isaiah 59:9-10

Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us; we hope for light, and behold, darkness, and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

John 12:35

So Jesus said to them, "The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

Jeremiah 23:12

Therefore their way shall be to them like slippery paths in the darkness, into which they shall be driven and fall, for I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment, declares the LORD.

1 Samuel 2:9

"He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness, for not by might shall a man prevail.

Job 18:5-6

"Indeed, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does 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 stagger like a drunken man.

Job 18:18

He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven 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 the LORD your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the twilight mountains, and while you look for light he turns it into gloom and makes it deep darkness.

Matthew 7:23

And then will I declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.'

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit."

John 11:10

But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

1 John 2:11

But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

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