darkness

Who leaue the pathes of vprightnesse, to walke in the wayes of darkenesse:

The way of the wicked is as darknes: they know not at what they stumble.

Who so curseth his father or his mother, his lampe shall be put out in obscure darkenesse.

1611 marginal noteOr, candle.

1611 marginal noteExod.21.17. leuit.20.9. matt.15.4.

Then I saw that wisedome excelleth folly, as farre as light excelleth darkenesse.

1611 marginal noteHebr. That there is an excellencie in Wisedome more then in folly,&c.

The wise mans eyes are in his head, but the foole walketh in darknes: and I my selfe perceiued also that one euent happeneth to them all.

1611 marginal noteProu. 17.24. chap. 8.1.

All his dayes also hee eateth in darkenesse, and he hath much sorrowe, and wrath with his sicknesse.

For he commeth in with vanitie, and departeth in darkenesse, and his name shall be couered with darkenesse.

But if a man liue many yeeres, and reioyce in them all; yet let him remember the dayes of darkenesse, for they shall be many. All that commeth is vanitie.

¶ Woe vnto them that call euill good, and good euill, that put darkenes for light, and light for darkenesse, that put bitter for sweete, and sweete for bitter.

1611 marginal noteHeb. that say concerning euill, It is good,&c.

And in that day they shall roare against them, like the roaring of the sea: and if one looke vnto the land, behold darkenesse and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heauens therof.

1611 marginal noteOr, distresse.

1611 marginal noteOr, when it is light it shalbe darke in the destructions thereof.