Proverbs 4:19
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But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
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Then Jesus told them, “For a little while longer, the Light will be among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
“Therefore their path will become slick; they will be driven away into the darkness and fall into it. For I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.
He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.
Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’
He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,
But if anyone walks at night, he will stumble, because he has no light.”
They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.