Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked." 5 They do not know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken. 6 I said, "You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.
Cross References
Psalm 11:3
If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?
Micah 3:1
I said, "Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn't it 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 do not call on the LORD?
Psalm 75:3
The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah.
Proverbs 1:29
because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD.
Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked is like darkness. They do not know what they stumble over.
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
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 the 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 of distress.
Isaiah 59:9
Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
John 3:19
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
John 12:35
Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness does not overtake you. He who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
Romans 1:28
Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God abandoned them to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
2 Timothy 2:19
However God's firm foundation stands, having this seal, "The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness."
1 John 2:11
But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, 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 do not call on God?