Parallel Verses
NET Bible
The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what causes them to 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.
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.
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 like the bright morning light, growing brighter and brighter until full day. 19 The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what causes them to stumble. 20 My child, pay attention to my words; listen attentively to my sayings.
Cross References
Isaiah 59:9-10
For this reason deliverance is far from us and salvation does not reach us. We wait for light, but see only darkness; we wait for a bright light, but live in deep darkness.
John 12:35
Jesus replied, "The light is with you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
Jeremiah 23:12
So the paths they follow will be dark and slippery. They will stumble and fall headlong. For I will bring disaster on them. A day of reckoning is coming for them." The Lord affirms it!
1 Samuel 2:9
He watches over his holy ones, but the wicked are made speechless in the darkness, for it is not by one's own strength that one prevails.
Job 18:5-6
"Yes, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; his flame of fire does not shine.
Job 5:14
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.
Job 12:25
They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.
Job 18:18
He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.
Proverbs 2:13
who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways,
Jeremiah 13:16
Show the Lord your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile.
Matthew 7:23
Then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you. Go away from me, you lawbreakers!'
Matthew 15:14
Leave them! They are blind guides. If someone who is blind leads another who is blind, both will fall into a pit."
John 11:10
But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."
1 John 2:11
But the one who hates his fellow Christian is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.