Proverbs - 4:19



19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

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Explanation and meaning of Proverbs 4:19.

Differing Translations

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The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall.
The way of the wicked is as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.
The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.
The way of the impious is darkened. They do not know where they may fall.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

The way of the wicked is as darkness,.... They are in the darkness of sin, ignorance, error, and unbelief; their works are works of darkness; the way in which they are leads to eternal darkness, ruin, and misery, and so must be most uncomfortable and dangerous;
they know not at what they stumble; they stumble at the word, which they are ignorant of, and at Christ, whom they have no knowledge of; and through the temptations of Satan and snares of the world, which they are not aware of, nor upon their guard against.

Darkness - Full of ignorance and error, of uncertainty and confusion, of danger and misery.

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