Parallel Verses

Webster

The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

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.

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 shining light, that shineth 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 thy ear to my sayings.

Cross References

Isaiah 59:9-10

Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

John 12:35

Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

Jeremiah 23:12

Wherefore their way shall be to 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 will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.

Job 18:5-6

Yes, 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 day-time, and grope in the noon-day as in the night.

Job 12:25

They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh 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 leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the LORD your God, before he shall cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and while ye look for light, he shall turn it into the shades of death, and make it gross darkness.

Matthew 7:23

And then will I profess to 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 leadeth the blind, both will fall into the ditch.

John 11:10

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

1 John 2:11

But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because darkness hath blinded his eyes.

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