Proverbs 4:19 {20}
Good News Translation
The road of the wicked, however, is dark as night. They fall, but cannot see what they have stumbled over.

New Revised Standard Version
The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.

Contemporary English Version
The lifestyle of the wicked is like total darkness, and they will never know what makes them stumble.

New American Bible
The way of the wicked is like darkness; they do not know on what they stumble.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings.

1 Samuel 2:9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; because no man shall prevail by his own strength.

Job 5:14 They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night.

Job 12:25 They shall grope as in the dark, and not in the light, and he shall make them stagger like men that are drunk.

Job 18:5,6,18 Shall not the light of the wicked be extinguished, and the flame of his fire not shine? . . .

Isaiah 59:9,10 Therefore is judgment far from us, and justice shall not overtake us. We looked for light, and behold darkness: brightness, and we have walked in the dark. . . .

Jeremiah 13:16 Give ye glory to the Lord your God, before it be dark, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains: you shall look for light, and he will turn it into the shadow of death, and into darkness.

Jeremiah 23:12 Therefore their way shall be as a slippery way in the dark: for they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evils upon them, the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.

Matthew 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.

Matthew 15:14 Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit.

John 12:35 Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while, the light is among you. Walk whilst you have the light, and the darkness overtake you not. And he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither be goeth.

1 John 2:11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness and walketh in darkness and knoweth not whither he goeth: because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.

Context
A Father's Instruction
18The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall. 19My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings.20Let them not depart from thy eyes, keep them in the midst of thy heart:…
Cross References
John 11:10
But if he walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.

John 12:35
Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while, the light is among you. Walk whilst you have the light, and the darkness overtake you not. And he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither be goeth.

Job 18:5
Shall not the light of the wicked be extinguished, and the flame of his fire not shine?

Job 18:6
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him, shall be put out.

Proverbs 2:13
Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in the most wicked things:

Isaiah 59:9
Therefore is judgment far from us, and justice shall not overtake us. We looked for light, and behold darkness: brightness, and we have walked in the dark.

Isaiah 59:10
We have groped for the wall, and like the blind we have groped as if we had no eyes: we have stumbled at noonday as in darkness, we are in dark places, as dead men.

Jeremiah 13:16
Give ye glory to the Lord your God, before it be dark, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains: you shall look for light, and he will turn it into the shadow of death, and into darkness.

Jeremiah 23:12
Therefore their way shall be as a slippery way in the dark: for they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evils upon them, the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.

Proverbs 4:18
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