They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
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- KJV They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
- BSB They do not know or understand; they wander in the darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
- NKJV They do not know, nor do they understand; They walk about in darkness; All the foundations of the earth are unstable.
- NASB ¶They do not know nor do they understand; They walk around in darkness; All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
- NLT But these oppressors know nothing; they are so ignorant! They wander about in darkness, while the whole world is shaken to the core.
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- Ps 11:3If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?
- Prov 2:13who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
- Rom 1:28Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
- Mic 3:1I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?
- Prov 1:29because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.
- 1 Jn 2:11But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
- Ps 14:4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?
- John 12:35Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.
- 2 Tim 2:19However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”
- Ps 53:4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God?
- Isa 59:9Therefore is justice far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
- Isa 5:7For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
- John 3:19This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
- Ps 75:3The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah.
- Prov 4:19The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.
- Eccl 2:14The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness — and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.
- Eccl 3:16Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.
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