Proverbs 4:19
Strong's Lexicon
But the way
דֶּ֣רֶךְ (de·reḵ)
Noun - common singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1870: 1) way, road, distance, journey, manner 1a) road, way, path 1b) journey 1c) direction 1d) manner, habit, way 1e) of course of life (fig.) 1f) of moral character (fig.)

of the wicked
רְ֭שָׁעִים (rə·šā·‘îm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7563: 1) wicked, criminal 1a) guilty one, one guilty of crime (subst) 1b) wicked (hostile to God) 1c) wicked, guilty of sin (against God or man)

is like the darkest gloom;
כָּֽאֲפֵלָ֑ה (kā·’ă·p̄ê·lāh)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 653: 1) darkness, gloominess, calamity 2) wickedness (fig.)

they do not
לֹ֥א ()
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: 1) not, no 1a) not (with verb-absolute prohibition) 1b) not (with modifier-negation) 1c) nothing (subst) 1d) without (with particle) 1e) before (of time)

know
יָ֝דְע֗וּ (yā·ḏə·‘ū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 3045: 1) to know 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to know 1a1a) to know, learn to know 1a1b) to perceive 1a1c) to perceive and see, find out and discern 1a1d) to discriminate, distinguish 1a1e) to know by experience 1a1f) to recognise, admit, acknowledge, confess 1a1g) to consider 1a2) to know, be acquainted with 1a3) to know (a person carnally) 1a4) to know how, be skilful in 1a5) to have knowledge, be wise 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be made known, be or become known, be revealed 1b2) to make oneself known 1b3) to be perceived 1b4) to be instructed 1c) (Piel) to cause to know 1d) (Poal) to cause to know 1e) (Pual) 1e1) to be known 1e2) known, one known, acquaintance (participle) 1f) (Hiphil) to make known, declare 1g) (Hophal) to be made known 1h) (Hithpael) to make oneself known, reveal oneself

what
בַּמֶּ֥ה (bam·meh)
Preposition-b | Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 4100: interr pron 1) what, how, of what kind 1a) (interrogative) 1a1) what? 1a2) of what kind 1a3) what? (rhetorical) 1a4) whatsoever, whatever, what 1b) (adverb) 1b1) how, how now 1b2) why 1b3) how! (exclamation) 1c) (with prep) 1c1) wherein?, whereby?, wherewith?, by what means? 1c2) because of what? 1c3) the like of what? 1c3a) how much?, how many?, how often? 1c3b) for how long? 1c4) for what reason?, why?, to what purpose? 1c5) until when?, how long?, upon what?, wherefore? indef pron 2) anything, aught, what may

makes them stumble.
יִכָּשֵֽׁלוּ׃ (yik·kā·šê·lū)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3782: 1) to stumble, stagger, totter 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to stumble 1a2) to totter 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to stumble 1b2) to be tottering, be feeble 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to cause to stumble, bring injury or ruin to, overthrow 1c2) to make feeble, make weak 1d) (Hophal) to be made to stumble 1e) (Piel) bereave

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.

Young's Literal Translation
The way of the wicked [is] as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they don’t 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.

King James Bible
The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Parallel Verses
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.

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

King James Bible
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; 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.

NET Bible
The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what causes them to stumble.

American Standard Version
The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.

English Revised Version
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

Young's Literal Translation
The way of the wicked is as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.
















Cross References
John 11:10
But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.

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.

Job 18:5
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

Job 18:6
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

Proverbs 2:13
Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

Isaiah 59:9
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.

Isaiah 59:10
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

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.

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.

Proverbs 1:1
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
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