Proverbs 4:19

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

The way of the wicked `is' as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 59:9-9 : 9 Therefore hath judgment been far from us, And righteousness reacheth us not, We wait for light, and lo, darkness, For brightness -- in thick darkness we go, 10 We feel like the blind `for' the wall, Yea, as without eyes we feel, We have stumbled at noon as at twilight, In desolate places as the dead.
  • John 12:35 : 35 Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness hath not known where he goeth;
  • Jer 23:12 : 12 Therefore is their way to them as slippery places, Into thick darkness they are driven, And they have fallen in it, For I bring in against them evil, The year of their inspection, An affirmation of Jehovah.
  • 1 Sam 2:9 : 9 The feet of His saints He keepeth, And the wicked in darkness are silent, For not by power doth man become mighty.
  • Job 18:5-6 : 5 Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire. 6 The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.
  • Prov 2:13 : 13 Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,
  • Job 5:14 : 14 By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.
  • Job 12:25 : 25 They feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to wander as a drunkard.
  • Matt 7:23 : 23 and then I will acknowledge to them, that -- I never knew you, depart from me ye who are working lawlessness.
  • Matt 15:14 : 14 let them alone, guides they are -- blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'
  • John 11:10 : 10 and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.'
  • 1 John 2:11 : 11 and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed `it' for thick darkness.

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    14Into the path of the wicked enter not, And be not happy in a way of evil doers.

    15Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on.

    16For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not `some' to stumble.

    17For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.

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    13They have been among rebellious ones of light, They have not discerned His ways, Nor abode in His paths.

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    14By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.

  • Prov 2:13
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    13Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,

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    25They feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to wander as a drunkard.

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    8A way of peace they have not known, And there is no judgment in their paths, Their paths they have made perverse for themselves, No treader in it hath known peace.

    9Therefore hath judgment been far from us, And righteousness reacheth us not, We wait for light, and lo, darkness, For brightness -- in thick darkness we go,

    10We feel like the blind `for' the wall, Yea, as without eyes we feel, We have stumbled at noon as at twilight, In desolate places as the dead.

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    5They knew not, nor do they understand, In darkness they walk habitually, Moved are all the foundations of earth.

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    16He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.

    17When together, morning `is' to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.

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    9Whoso is walking in integrity walketh confidently, And whoso is perverting his ways is known.

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    16Ruin and misery `are' in their ways.

    17And a way of peace they did not know.

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    6For Jehovah is knowing the way of the righteous, And the way of the wicked is lost!

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    16Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed `it' for thick darkness.

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    19The way of the slothful `is' as a hedge of briers, And the path of the upright is raised up.

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    19Where `is' this -- the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where `is' this -- its place?

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    8My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.

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    15My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,

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    2Also, without knowledge the soul `is' not good, And the hasty in feet is sinning.

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    26Ponder thou the path of thy feet, And all thy ways `are' established.

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    9The light of the righteous rejoiceth, And the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

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    15The path of the age dost thou observe, That men of iniquity have trodden?

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    5Evil men understand not judgment, And those seeking Jehovah understand all.

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    5Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.

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    20My son, to my words give attention, To my sayings incline thine ear,

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    15Whose paths `are' crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.

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    18Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.