KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Proverbs 4:19–20
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Proverbs 4:19
19The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
19The way of the wicked is as darknes: they know not at what they stumble.
Proverbs 4:20
20¶ My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
20¶ My sonne, attend to my words, incline thine eare vnto my sayings.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 4:19
Absence of light; also obscurity, ignorance, distress, or moral evil by figure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To perceive, understand, recognize, experience, or be assured of something.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To strike upon without design; to fall on; to light on by chance. To obstruct in progress; to cause to trip or stop.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 4:20
To give heed or attention; to be present; to wait upon or accompany.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Spoken or written expressions; sayings, messages, commands, promises, or accounts.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Lean unto, or towards.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
The organ of hearing; also, the seed-bearing head of grain.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 19
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Open the full verse study35Then 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.
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Open the full verse study9¶ 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.
10We 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.
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Open the full verse study12Wherefore 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.
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Open the full verse study5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
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Open the full verse study9He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
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Open the full verse study16Give 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.
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Open the full verse study25They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
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Open the full verse study18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
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Open the full verse study14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
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Open the full verse study10But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
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Open the full verse study23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
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Open the full verse study13Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
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Open the full verse study11But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
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Open the full verse study14Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
From verse 20
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Open the full verse study1MY son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
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Open the full verse study3Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
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Open the full verse study20¶ My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
21Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
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Open the full verse study1MY son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
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Open the full verse study1GIVE ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
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Open the full verse study12So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
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Open the full verse study5While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
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