The expression, they know not at what they stumble, carries with it the idea that they are so ignorant that they neither know wickedness as wickedness, nor do they apprehend the destruction which it involves.
Compare our Lord's teaching, "But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him" ( John 11:10 cf. 7:9, "in the black and dark night." In this darkness the wicked cannot help but stumble. It is the word used of the plague of "thick darkness" that settled over all the land of Egypt, even a darkness that "might be felt," when the Egyptians "saw not one another, nor any arose from his place for three days" ( Exodus 10:21-23). Darkness ( aphelah) strictly, thick darkness, midnight gloom, the entire absence of light. It is a way dark throughout - a via tenebrosa (Vulgate) - terminating at length in "the blackness of darkness." As light is emblematical of knowledge, holiness, and joy, so darkness represents ignorance, unholiness, and misery (see Isaiah 8:22). so deeply enveloped in gloom that the wicked are not able even to see the obstacles and impediments against which they stumble, and which are the cause of their ruin. In contrast with the path of the just is the way of the wicked, which is described as darkness itself: i.e. The way of the wicked is as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble. The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness they do not know what causes them to stumble. The way of the wicked as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble. The way of the wicked is as darkness They know not at what they stumble. They do not know what makes them stumble.īut the way of the wicked is like deep darkness, and they do not know what they are stumbling over. The way of wicked people is like deep darkness. They fall, but cannot see what they have stumbled over. The road of the wicked, however, is dark as night. The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall. The lifestyle of the wicked is like total darkness, and they will never know what makes them stumble. The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.īut the way of the wicked is darkness and they do not know on what they stumble.īut the ways of the ungodly are dark they know not how they stumble. The way of the wicked is like darkness They do not know over what they stumble.īut the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom they don’t know what makes them stumble.
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