Verse 19

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

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  De ondes vei er som det dype mørket; de vet ikke hva de snubler over.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  De ugudeliges vei er som mørket; de vet ikke hva de snubler over.

• Norsk King James

  Den ugudeliges vei er som mørket: de vet ikke hva de snubler over.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  De ugudeliges vei er som dyp mørke, de vet ikke hva de snubler over.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  De ugudeliges vei er som det dypeste mørke, de vet ikke hva de snubler over.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  De ondes vei er som mørke: de vet ikke hva de snubler over.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  De onde menneskers vei er som mørke, hvor de ikke forstår hva de snubler over.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  De ondes vei er som mørke: de vet ikke hva de snubler over.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  De ugudeliges vei er som tjukt mørke; de vet ikke hva de snubler over.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  De ugudeliges vei er som mørket; de vet ikke hva som gjør dem til å snuble.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  De Ugudeliges Vei er som Mørkheden (selv), de vide ikke, hvorpaa de støde an.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

• KJV 1769 norsk

  De ondes vei er som mørket; de vet ikke hva de snubler over.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  De ondes vei er som mørke. De vet ikke hva de snubler over.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  De ondes vei er som mørke, de vet ikke hva de snubler i.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  De ondes vei er som mørket; de vet ikke hva de snubler over.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Synderes vei er mørk; de ser ikke årsaken til sitt fall.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  But ye waye of the vngodly is as the darcknesse, wherin me fall, or they be awarre.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  The way of the wicked is as the darkenes: they knowe not wherein they shall fall.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  But the way of the vngodly is as the darkenesse, they knowe not where they fall.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

• World English Bible (2000)

  The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.

Referenced Verses

• 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.