Proverbs 4:19

KJV1611 – Modern English

The way of the wicked is like darkness: they do not know at what they stumble.

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  • Isa 59:9-9 : 9 Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us: we wait for light, but see 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 noon as in the night; we are in desolate places like dead men.
  • John 12:35 : 35 Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; for he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.
  • Jer 23:12 : 12 Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall in it; for I will bring disaster upon them, the year of their punishment, says 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 one prevail.
  • Job 18:5-6 : 5 Indeed, 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 dwelling, and his lamp 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 at midday as if it were night.
  • Job 12:25 : 25 They grope in the dark without light, and He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
  • Matt 7:23 : 23 And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you who practice iniquity.'
  • Matt 15:14 : 14 Let them alone: they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
  • John 11:10 : 10 But if one walks in the night, he stumbles, because there is no light in him.
  • 1 John 2:11 : 11 But he who hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    14 Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evil men.

    15 Avoid it, do not pass by it, turn from it, and pass away.

    16 For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

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

    18 But the path of the just is like the shining light, that shines more and more unto the perfect day.

  • Job 24:13
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    13 They are among those who rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.

  • Job 5:14
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    14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as if it were night.

  • Prov 2:13
    78%

    13 Who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness;

  • Job 12:25
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    25 They grope in the dark without light, and He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

  • Isa 59:8-10
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    77%

    8 The way of peace they do not know; and there is no justice in their paths: they have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever walks therein shall not know peace.

    9 Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us: we wait for light, but see 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 noon as in the night; we are in desolate places like dead men.

  • Ps 82:5
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    5 They do not know, nor do they understand; they walk in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16 In the dark they break into houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

    17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if one knows them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • John 11:10
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    10 But if one walks in the night, he stumbles, because there is no light in him.

  • Prov 10:9
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    9 He who walks uprightly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways shall be known.

  • Prov 11:5
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    5 The righteousness of the blameless shall direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

  • Rom 3:16-17
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    16 'Destruction and misery are in their ways:'

    17 'And the way of peace they have not known:'

  • Ps 1:6
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    6 For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

  • Jer 13:16
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    16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

  • Hos 14:9
    74%

    9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.

  • Prov 5:6
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    6 Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are unstable, so that you cannot know them.

  • Prov 15:19
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    19 The way of the lazy man is like a hedge of thorns, but the way of the righteous is made plain.

  • Job 38:19
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    19 Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is its place,

  • Job 19:8
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    8 He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.

  • Prov 1:15-16
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    15 My son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their path;

    16 For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

  • Jer 5:4
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    4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they do not know the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.

  • Job 17:12
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    12 They change the night into day; the light is near because of darkness.

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    2 Also, for the soul to be without knowledge is not good; and he who hurries with his feet sins.

    3 The foolishness of man perverts his way, and his heart frets against the LORD.

  • Prov 2:20
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    20 That you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

  • Prov 4:26
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    26 Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established.

  • Prov 13:9
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    9 The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

  • Job 10:22
    73%

    22 A land of darkness, like darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

  • Job 22:15
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    15 Have you marked the old way which wicked men have trodden,

  • Jer 4:22
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    22 For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are senseless children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

  • Job 34:22
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    22 There is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

  • Prov 28:5
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    5 Evil people do not understand judgment, but those who seek the LORD understand all things.

  • Prov 4:12
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    12 When you walk, your steps will not be hindered; and when you run, you will not stumble.

  • Job 18:5
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    5 Indeed, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

  • Prov 4:20
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    20 My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

  • Prov 2:15
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    15 Whose ways are crooked, and who are perverse in their paths:

  • Prov 10:29
    72%

    29 The way of the LORD is strength to the upright, but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

  • Job 18:7
    72%

    7 The steps of his strength shall be shortened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

  • Prov 13:6
    72%

    6 Righteousness guards him who is upright in the way, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

  • Isa 29:15
    72%

    15 Woe to them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us?

  • Job 6:18
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    18 The paths of their way turn aside; they go to nothing and perish.