Proverbs 4:19

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 59:9-9 : 9 ¶ 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. 10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if [we had] no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; [we are] in desolate places as dead [men].
  • John 12:35 : 35 Then Jesus said unto 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.›
  • Jer 23:12 : 12 Wherefore their way shall be unto 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 Sam 2:9 : 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 : 5 ¶ Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. 6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
  • Prov 2:13 : 13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
  • Job 5:14 : 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
  • Job 12:25 : 25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like [a] drunken [man].
  • Matt 7:23 : 23 ‹And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.›
  • Matt 15:14 : 14 ‹Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.›
  • John 11:10 : 10 ‹But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.›
  • 1 John 2:11 : 11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, [and] make [it] gross darkness.

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    14¶ Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil [men].

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    17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

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    13¶ They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

  • Job 5:14
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    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

  • Prov 2:13
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    13Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

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    25They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like [a] drunken [man].

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    8The way of peace they know not; and [there is] no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

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    10We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if [we had] no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; [we are] in desolate places as dead [men].

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    5They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

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    16In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

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    16Destruction and misery [are] in their ways:

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    16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, [and] make [it] gross darkness.

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    18The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.