Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
They know not, neither can they perceive, In darkness, they wander, All the foundations of the earth do shake.
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.
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.
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.
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 Deliver the weak sad the needy, Out of the hand of the lawless, make rescue. 5 They know not, neither can they perceive, In darkness, they wander, All the foundations of the earth do shake. 6 I, said, Gods, ye are, Yea, sons of the Highest, are ye all;
Cross References
Psalm 11:3
When the pillars are overthrown, What could, a righteous man, do?
Micah 3:1
Then said I, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel, - Is it not yours to know justice?
Proverbs 2:13
From them who forsake the paths of rectitude, to walk in this ways of darkness;
Psalm 14:4
Are all the workers of iniquity, without knowledge? devouring my people as they devour food! Upon Yahweh, have they not called.
Psalm 75:3
Earth was melting away with all its inhabitants, I, have fixed the pillars thereof. Selah.
Proverbs 1:29
Because they hated knowledge, and, the reverence of Yahweh, did not choose;
Proverbs 4:19
The way of the lawless, is like darkness, they know not, at what they stumble.
Ecclesiastes 2:14
As for the wise man, his eyes, are in his head, whereas, the dullard, in darkness, doth walk, - but, I myself, knew that, one destiny, happeneth to them, all.
Ecclesiastes 3:16
Then, again, I saw under the sun, the place of justice, that there was lawlessness, and, the place of righteousness, that there was lawlessness.
Isaiah 5:7
Surely the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts, is the house of Israel, And, the men of Judah, are the plantation in which he dearly delighted, - And he waited, For equity but lo! murderous iniquity, For the rule of right but lo the cry of the wronged.
Isaiah 59:9
For this cause, hath justice removed far from us, And righteousness overtaketh us not, - We wait for light, But lo! darkness, For brightness, In thick darkness, we walk:
John 3:19
And, this, is the judgment: That, the light, hath come into the world, - and men loved, rather the darkness than the light, for, wicked, were their, works.
John 12:35
Jesus, therefore, said unto them - Yet a little while, the light, is, among you: Walk, while ye have, the light, lest, darkness, on you should lay hold; and, he that walketh in darkness, knoweth not whither he drifteth.
Romans 1:28
And, even as they did not approve to be holding, God, in acknowledgment, God gave them up unto a disapproved mind to be doing the things that are not becoming,
2 Timothy 2:19
Howbeit, the firm foundation of God, standeth, having this seal - The Lord hath acknowledged them who are his, and, Let every one that nameth the name of the Lord stand aloof from unrighteousness.
1 John 2:11
Whereas, he that hateth his brother, in the darkness, dwelleth, and in the darkness, walketh; and knoweth not whither he is drifting, because the, darkness, hath blinded his eyes.
Psalm 53:4
Are the workers of iniquity, without knowledge? Devouring my people, as they devour food? Upon God, have they not called.