Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
They know not, nor do they understand. They walk to and fro in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
New American Standard Bible
They
All the
King James Version
They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
Holman Bible
they wander in darkness.
All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
International Standard Version
They neither know nor understand; they walk about in the dark while all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
American Standard Version
They know not, neither do they understand; They walk to and fro in darkness: All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Amplified
The rulers do not know nor do they understand;
They walk on in the darkness [of complacent satisfaction];
All the foundations of the earth [the fundamental principles of the administration of justice] are shaken.
Darby Translation
They know not, neither do they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are moved.
Julia Smith Translation
They will not know, they will not Understand: they will go about in darkness: all the foundations of the earth will be moved.
King James 2000
They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They do not know or consider. They go about in the darkness, [so that] all [the] foundations of [the] earth are shaken.
Modern King James verseion
They neither know nor will understand; they walk on in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They will not be learned nor understand, but walk on still in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
NET Bible
They neither know nor understand. They stumble around in the dark, while all the foundations of the earth crumble.
New Heart English Bible
They do not know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
The Emphasized Bible
They know not, neither can they perceive, In darkness, they wander, All the foundations of the earth do shake.
Webster
They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
World English Bible
They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Youngs Literal Translation
They knew not, nor do they understand, In darkness they walk habitually, Moved are all the foundations of earth.
Themes
spiritual Blindness » The wicked are in
Darkness » The wicked » Walk in
References
Hastings
Morish
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 82:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Plea For Righteous Judgment
4 Rescue the poor and needy man. Deliver from the hand of the wicked man. 5 They know not, nor do they understand. They walk to and fro in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken. 6 I said, Ye are gods, and all of you sons of the Most High.
Cross References
Psalm 11:3
If the foundations be destroyed, what can a righteous man do?
Micah 3:1
And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel. Is it not for you to know justice?
Proverbs 2:13
who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
Psalm 14:4
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon LORD?
Psalm 75:3
[when] the earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved. I have set up the pillars of it. Selah.
Proverbs 1:29
because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of LORD.
Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked is as darkness. They know not at what they stumble.
Ecclesiastes 2:14
The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.
Ecclesiastes 3:16
And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.
Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. And he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression, for righteousness, but, behold, a cry.
Isaiah 59:9
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 3:19
And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their deeds were evil.
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.
Romans 1:28
And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit;
2 Timothy 2:19
Nevertheless the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, Lord knows those who are his, and, Let every man who names the name of Lord keep away from unrighteousness.
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.
Psalm 53:4
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon God?