Parallel Verses
King James Version
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
New American Standard Bible
They do not know over what they
Holman Bible
they don’t know what makes them stumble.
International Standard Version
But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness, and they do not know what they are stumbling over.
A Conservative Version
The way of the wicked is as darkness. They know not at what they stumble.
American Standard Version
The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.
Amplified
The way of the wicked is like [deep] darkness;
They do not know over what they stumble.
Bible in Basic English
The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.
Darby Translation
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Julia Smith Translation
The way of the unjust as darkness: they shall not know in what they shall stumble.
King James 2000
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The way of the wicked ones [is] like deep darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.
Modern King James verseion
The way of the wicked is as darkness; they know not at what they stumble.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But the way of the ungodly is as the darkness, wherein men fall, or they be aware.
NET Bible
The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what causes them to stumble.
New Heart English Bible
The way of the wicked is like darkness. They do not know what they stumble over.
The Emphasized Bible
The way of the lawless, is like darkness, they know not, at what they stumble.
Webster
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
World English Bible
The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.
Youngs Literal Translation
The way of the wicked is as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 4:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Right Path
18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. 19 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.
Cross References
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.
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.
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.
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.
Job 18:5-6
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
Job 5:14
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
Job 12:25
They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
Job 18:18
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Proverbs 2:13
Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
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.
Matthew 7:23
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Matthew 15:14
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
John 11:10
But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
1 John 2:11
But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.