Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble. New Living Translation But the way of the wicked is like total darkness. They have no idea what they are stumbling over. English Standard Version The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble. Berean Standard Bible But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble. King James Bible The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. New King James Version The way of the wicked is like darkness; They do not know what makes them stumble. New American Standard Bible The way of the wicked is like darkness; They do not know over what they stumble. NASB 1995 The way of the wicked is like darkness; They do not know over what they stumble. NASB 1977 The way of the wicked is like darkness; They do not know over what they stumble. Legacy Standard Bible The way of the wicked is like thick darkness; They do not know over what they stumble. Amplified Bible The way of the wicked is like [deep] darkness; They do not know over what they stumble. Christian Standard Bible But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they don’t know what makes them stumble. Holman Christian Standard Bible But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they don’t know what makes them stumble. American Standard Version The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble. Aramaic Bible in Plain English But the way of the wicked is darkness and they do not know on what they stumble. Brenton Septuagint Translation But the ways of the ungodly are dark; they know not how they stumble. Contemporary English Version The lifestyle of the wicked is like total darkness, and they will never know what makes them stumble. Douay-Rheims Bible The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall. English Revised Version The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. GOD'S WORD® Translation The way of wicked people is like deep darkness. They do not know what makes them stumble. Good News Translation The road of the wicked, however, is dark as night. They fall, but cannot see what they have stumbled over. International Standard Version But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness, and they do not know what they are stumbling over. JPS Tanakh 1917 The way of the wicked is as darkness; They know not at what they stumble. Literal Standard Version The way of the wicked [is] as darkness, | They have not known at what they stumble. Majority Standard Bible But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble. New American Bible The way of the wicked is like darkness; they do not know on what they stumble. NET Bible The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what causes them to stumble. New Revised Standard Version The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what they stumble over. New Heart English Bible The way of the wicked is like darkness. They do not know what they stumble over. Webster's Bible Translation 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. Young's Literal Translation The way of the wicked is as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context A Father's Instruction…18The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday. 19But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble. 20My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.… Cross References John 11:10 But if anyone walks at night, he will stumble, because he has no light." John 12:35 Then Jesus told them, "For a little while longer, the Light will be among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. Job 18:5 Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow. Job 18:6 The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out. Proverbs 2:13 from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness, Isaiah 59:9 Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom. Isaiah 59:10 Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead. Treasury of Scripture The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. 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 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. Jump to Previous Cause Dark Darkness Deep Fall Makes Sinners Stumble Way WickedJump to Next Cause Dark Darkness Deep Fall Makes Sinners Stumble Way WickedProverbs 4 1. persuades to wisdom14. and to show wickedness 20. He exhorts to sanctification (19) The way of the wicked is as darkness.--By refusing to "walk in the light" of God's Word, and conscience (1John 1:7), the light that was in them has become darkness (Matthew 6:23); they know not whither they are going (John 12:35), and stumble (Proverbs 11:10) over difficulties which in the light they might have avoided.Verse 19. - The way of the wicked is as darkness. In contrast with the path of the just is the way of the wicked, which is described as darkness itself: i.e. so deeply enveloped in gloom that the wicked are not able even to see the obstacles and impediments against which they stumble, and which are the cause of their ruin. It is a way dark throughout - a via tenebrosa (Vulgate) - terminating at length in "the blackness of darkness." As light is emblematical of knowledge, holiness, and joy, so darkness represents ignorance, unholiness, and misery (see Isaiah 8:22). Darkness (aphelah); strictly, thick darkness, midnight gloom, the entire absence of light. It is the word used of the plague of "thick darkness" that settled over all the land of Egypt, even a darkness that "might be felt," when the Egyptians "saw not one another, nor any arose from his place for three days" (Exodus 10:21-23). It occurs again in ch. 7:9, "in the black and dark night." In this darkness the wicked cannot help but stumble. Compare our Lord's teaching, "But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him" (John 11:10; cf. 12:36). The expression, they know not at what they stumble, carries with it the idea that they are so ignorant that they neither know wickedness as wickedness, nor do they apprehend the destruction which it involves. "Sins, however great and detestable they may be, are looked upon as trivial, or as not sins at all, when men get accustomed to them" (St. Augustine, 'Enchiridion,' cap. 80). On "stumble" (kashal), see ver. 12; and on the destruction of the wicked implied in the stumbling, see Proverbs 1:27, seq., 2:18-22; 3:35. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew But the wayדֶּ֣רֶךְ (de·reḵ) Noun - common singular construct Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action of the wicked רְ֭שָׁעִים (rə·šā·‘îm) Adjective - masculine plural Strong's 7563: Wrong, an, bad person is like the darkest gloom; כָּֽאֲפֵלָ֑ה (kā·’ă·p̄ê·lāh) Preposition-k, Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 653: Duskiness, misfortune, concealment they do not לֹ֥א (lō) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no know יָ֝דְע֗וּ (yā·ḏə·‘ū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 3045: To know what בַּמֶּ֥ה (bam·meh) Preposition-b | Interrogative Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what makes them stumble. יִכָּשֵֽׁלוּ׃ (yik·kā·šê·lū) Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 3782: To totter, waver, to falter, stumble, faint, fall Links Proverbs 4:19 NIVProverbs 4:19 NLT Proverbs 4:19 ESV Proverbs 4:19 NASB Proverbs 4:19 KJV Proverbs 4:19 BibleApps.com Proverbs 4:19 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 4:19 Chinese Bible Proverbs 4:19 French Bible Proverbs 4:19 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 4:19 The way of the wicked is like (Prov. 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