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Proverbs 4:19

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The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
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  1. John 12:35Rank 1 from verse 19
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    35Then 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.

  2. Isaiah 59:9–10Rank 2 from verse 19
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    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.

    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.

  3. Jeremiah 23:12Rank 3 from verse 19
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    12Wherefore 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.

  4. Job 18:5–6Rank 4 from verse 19
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    5Yea, 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.

  5. 1 Samuel 2:9Rank 5 from verse 19
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    9He 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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Proverbs 4:19

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darkness

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Sense 1: Absence of light. Sense 2: Obscurity, ignorance, distress, or moral evil by figure.

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know

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To perceive, understand, recognize, experience, or be assured of something.

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stumble

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Sense 1: To trip, lose footing, or fall by striking against something. Sense 2: To err, fall, or be hindered figuratively. Sense 3: To cause another to trip, fall, err, or be hindered.

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

19The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

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20¶ My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

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