Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But the way of the ungodly is as the darkness, wherein men fall, or they be aware.

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.

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 The path of the righteous shineth as the light, and is ever brighter and brighter unto the perfect day. 19 But the way of the ungodly is as the darkness, wherein men fall, or they be aware. 20 My son, mark my words, and incline thine ear unto my sayings.

Cross References

Isaiah 59:9-10

And this is the cause that equity is so far from us, and that righteousness cometh not nigh us. We look for light, lo, it is darkness; for the morning shine, see, we walk in the dark.

John 12:35

Then Jesus said unto them, "Yet a little while is the light with you: walk while ye have light, lest the darkness come on you. He that walketh in the dark, knoweth not whither he goeth.

Jeremiah 23:12

Wherefore, their way shall be slippery in the darkness, wherein they may stagger and fall. For I will bring a plague upon them, even the year of their visitation, sayeth the LORD.

1 Samuel 2:9

He will keep the feet of his saints but the wicked shall keep silence in darkness. For in his own might shall no man be strong.

Job 18:5-6

Shall not the light of the ungodly be put out? Yea, the flame of his fire shall not burn.

Job 5:14

Insomuch that they run into darkness by fair day, and grope about them at the noonday, like as in the night.

Job 12:25

and grope in the dark without light, staggering to and fro like drunken men.

Job 18:18

he shall be driven from the light into darkness, and cast clean out of the world.

Proverbs 2:13

From such as leave the high street, and walk in the ways of darkness;

Jeremiah 13:16

Honour the LORD your God herein, or he take his light from you, and before your feet stumble in darkness at the hill: lest when ye look for the light, he turn it into the shadow and darkness of death.

Matthew 7:23

And then will I knowledge unto them, that I never knew them: 'Depart from me, ye workers of iniquity.'

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone, they be the blind leaders of the blind. If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."

John 11:10

But if a man walk in the night he stumbleth, because there is no light in him."

1 John 2:11

And he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness; and knoweth not whither he goeth, for darkness hath blinded his eyes.

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