Proverbs 4:19

way of the wicked. Illustrations: Korah (Numbers 16:16-19); Ahab (1 Kings 16:31); Babylon (Isaiah 47:11); Jews (Jeremiah 5:19; Jeremiah 5:25; Jeremiah 44:15-23.Ezekiel 18:29; Acts 28:25; Acts 28:26).

as. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "in".

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

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