They grope in darkness, having no light, and He makes them stagger like a drunkard.
Proverbs 4:19 - The Scriptures 2009 The way of the wrong is like darkness; They do not know at what they stumble. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble. [John 12:35.] American Standard Version (1901) The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble. Common English Bible The path of the wicked is like deep darkness; they don’t know where they will stumble. Catholic Public Domain Version The way of the impious is darkened. They do not know where they may fall. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall. |
They grope in darkness, having no light, and He makes them stagger like a drunkard.
They thrust him from light into darkness, and chase him out of the world.
By day they encounter darkness, and at noon they grope as in the night.
They do not know, nor do they understand, They walk about in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Those who leave the paths of straightness To walk in the ways of darkness;
Thorns, snares are in the way of the perverse; He who guards his life keeps far away from them.
Give esteem to יהוה your Elohim before He brings darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you are looking for light. He turns it into the shadow of death, makes it gross darkness.
“Therefore their way is to them like slippery ways in the dark. They are driven on and they shall fall in them. For I bring evil on them, the year of their punishment,” declares יהוה.
“Leave them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both shall fall into a ditch.
“And then I shall declare to them, ‘I never knew you, depart from Me, you who work lawlessness!’
But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.
יהושע, therefore, said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. And he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.
But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
“He guards the feet of His lovingly-commited ones, but the wrong are silent in darkness, for man does not become mighty by power.