Proverbs 24:20
For there shall be no reward to the evil man. The lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.
In Context
19Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, nor be thou envious at the wicked.
21My son, fear thou LORD and the king, [and] do not associate with those who are given to change.
Cross References
Job 18:5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
Psalms 9:17Wicked men shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
Psalms 37:2For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Proverbs 20:20He who curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked! [It is] ill [with him], for what his hands have done shall be done to him.
Matthew 25:8And the foolish said to the wise, Give us from your olive oil, because our lamps are going out.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 24:20-21
19 Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked; 20 For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out. Here, 1. He repeats the caution he had before given against envying the pleasures and successes of wicked man in their wicked ways. This he quotes from his father David, Ps. xxxvii. 1 . We must not in any case fret ourselves, or make ourselves uneasy, whatever God does in his providence how disagreeable soever it is to our sentiments, interests,… Read the whole commentary →