Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
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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.
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 Deliver the outcast and poor, and save them from the hand of the ungodly. 5 They will not be learned nor understand, but walk on still in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are out of course. 6 I have said, "Ye are gods, and ye are all the children of the most highest.
Cross References
Psalm 11:3
For the foundations will be cast down, and what hath the righteous done?
Micah 3:1
Hear, O ye heads of the house of Jacob, and ye leaders of the house of Israel: Should not ye know, what were lawful and right?
Proverbs 2:13
From such as leave the high street, and walk in the ways of darkness;
Psalm 14:4
Have they no knowledge, that they are all such workers of mischief, eating up my people as it were bread, and call not upon the LORD?
Psalm 75:3
The earth is weak, and all that is therein; but I bear up her pillars. Selah.
Proverbs 1:29
And that because they hated knowledge, and received not the fear of the LORD,
Proverbs 4:19
But the way of the ungodly is as the darkness, wherein men fall, or they be aware.
Ecclesiastes 2:14
For a wise man beareth his eyes about in his head, but the fool goeth in the darkness. I perceived also that they both had one end.
Ecclesiastes 3:16
Moreover, I saw under the sun ungodliness in the stead of judgment, and iniquity instead of righteousness.
Isaiah 5:7
As for the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts, it is the house of Israel, and whole Judah his fair planting. Of these he looked for equity, but see there is wrong; for righteousness, lo, it is but misery.
Isaiah 59:9
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 3:19
And this is the condemnation: that light is come into the world, and the men have loved darkness more than light, because their deeds were evil.
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.
Romans 1:28
And as it seemed not good unto them to be a known of God, even so God delivered them up unto a lewd mind, that they should do those things which were not comely,
2 Timothy 2:19
But the sure ground of God remaineth, and hath this seal: the Lord knoweth them that are his, and let every man that calleth on the name of Christ, depart from iniquity.
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.
Psalm 53:4
How can they have understanding, that are the workers of wickedness, eating up my people as it were bread, and calling not upon God?