Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Proverbs 4:19 in other translations
| BSB | But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | The way of the wicked is as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble. |
| DARBY | The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. |
| BBE | The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall. |
| Webster | The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. |
What does Proverbs 4:19 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 4:18-19
18-19. As shining light increases from twilight to noonday splendor, so the course of the just increases in purity, but that of the wicked is as thickest darkness, in which one knows not on what he stumbles.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 4:14-27
The way of evil men may seem pleasant, and the nearest way to compass some end; but it is an evil way, and will end ill; if thou love thy God and thy soul, avoid it. It is not said, Keep at a due distance, but at a great distance; never think you can get far enough from it. The way of the righteous is light; Christ is their Way, and he is the Light. The saints will not be perfect till they reach heaven, but there…
Proverbs 4:19 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 4:19
- 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.
- 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. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
- 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.
- Job 18:5-6
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
- 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.
- 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.
- John 11:10
But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
- Proverbs 2:13
Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
- Job 12:25
They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
- Job 5:14
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
- Matthew 7:23
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
- Job 18:18
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
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Context
- Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
- Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
- Proverbs 4:20
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
Proverbs 4:19 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | El camino de los impíos es como la oscuridad: no saben en qué tropiezan. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Le chemin des méchants est comme l’obscurité; ils ne savent contre quoi ils trébucheront. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Der Weg der Gesetzlosen ist dem Dunkel gleich; sie erkennen nicht, worüber sie straucheln. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Via impiorum tenebrosa; nesciunt ubi corruant. |