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Proverbs 4:19

SinWisdom

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

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

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

20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

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BSB
But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
KJV
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
WEB
The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.
ASV
The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.
DARBY
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
BLB
The way of the wicked [is] like the darkness—they do not know over what they stumble.
ÅB
De ugudeliges vei er som det dype mørke; de vet ikke hva de snubler over.
OTB
De ondes vei er som dyp mørke; de vet ikke hva som får dem til å snuble.
B1930
De ugudeliges vei er som det dype mørke; de vet ikke hvad de snubler over.

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Cross references

  • John 12:35

    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.

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  • Isaiah 59:9–10

    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.

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  • Jeremiah 23:12

    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.

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  • Job 18:5–6

    Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

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  • 1 Samuel 2:9

    He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.

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  • Jeremiah 13:16

    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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  • John 11:10

    But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.

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  • Proverbs 2:13

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

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