Translations
Louis Segond 1910
La voie des méchants est comme les ténèbres; Ils n'aperçoivent pas ce qui les fera tomber.
KJV
The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
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