Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
In Context
20My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:9He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.
Job 12:25They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
Job 18:18He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Proverbs 2:13who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,
Isaiah 59:9Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 4:15-20
Cautions against Bad Company. 14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. 15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away. 16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. 18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. 19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at… Read the whole commentary →