THEOSISProverbs 4:19Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall.
דֶּ֣רֶךְ רְ֭שָׁעִים כָּֽאֲפֵלָ֑ה לֹ֥א יָ֝דְע֗וּ בַּמֶּ֥ה יִכָּשֵֽׁלוּ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- John 12:35Jesus 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.
- Isa 59:9Therefore 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.
- Isa 59:10We 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.
- 1 Sam 2:9He 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 18:5Shall not the light of the wicked be extinguished, and the flame of his fire not shine?
- Job 18:6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him, shall be put out.
- Jer 23:12Therefore 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.
- Jer 13:16Give 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.