Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.
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Referenced Verses
- Isa 59:9-9 : 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. 10 We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.
- John 12:35 : 35 Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is going.
- Jer 23:12 : 12 Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.
- 1 Sam 2:9 : 9 He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength.
- Job 18:5-6 : 5 "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine. 6 The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.
- Job 18:18 : 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
- Prov 2:13 : 13 who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
- Job 5:14 : 14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
- Job 12:25 : 25 They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
- Matt 7:23 : 23 Then I will tell them, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.'
- Matt 15:14 : 14 Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit."
- John 11:10 : 10 But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in him."
- 1 John 2:11 : 11 But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
- Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.
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14 Don't enter into the path of the wicked. Don't walk in the way of evil men.
15 Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.
16 For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. 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 righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.
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13 "These are of those who rebel against the light. They don't know its ways, nor stay in its paths.
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14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
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13 who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
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25 They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
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8 The way of peace they don't know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.
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.
10 We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.
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5 They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
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16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.
17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
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10 But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in him."
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9 He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.
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5 The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
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16 Destruction and misery are in their ways.
17 The way of peace, they haven't known."
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6 For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
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16 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.
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9 Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
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6 She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn't know it.
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19 The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.
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19 "What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,
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8 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
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15 My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,
16 for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.
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4 Then I said, "Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God.
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12 They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.
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2 It isn't good to have zeal without knowledge; nor being hasty with one's feet and missing the way.
3 The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.
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20 that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
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26 Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.
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9 The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.
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22 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"
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15 Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,
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22 "For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."
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22 There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
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5 Evil men don't understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.
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12 When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble.
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5 "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.
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20 My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.
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15 who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:
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29 The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
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7 The steps of his strength shall be shortened. His own counsel shall cast him down.
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6 Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
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15 Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us?" and "Who knows us?"
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18 The caravans that travel beside them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.