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Pro_4:19 The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Ver. 19. Is as darkness.] That little light they had by nature they imprison, { êáôå÷ïíôùõ , Rom_1:18} and are justly deprived of. And as for those sparkles of the light of joy and comfort that hypocrites have, it is but as a flash of lightning which is followed with a thunder clap, or like the light smitten out of the flint; (1.) they cannot warm themselves by it, nor see to direct their ways; (2.) it will quickly go out; (3.) and after that they must "lie down in sorrow." {Isa_50:11}
They know not at what they stumble.] They stumble sometimes at Christ himself, and at his word, "being disobedient, whereunto also they were appointed." {1Pe_2:8} A shrewd sign of reprobation. The Vulgate renders it, Ne sciunt ubi corruant. They know not how soon they may drop into hell, which even gapes for them. {Isa_14:9}