Proverbs 13:9
The light of the righteous rejoiceth; but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
In Context
8The ransom of a man's life is his riches; but the indigent heareth not rebuke.
10By pride there only cometh contention; but with the well-advised is wisdom.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:36And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen for myself to put my name there.
Job 21:17How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and cometh their calamity upon them? Doth he distribute sorrows [to them] in his anger?
Psalms 97:11Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart.
Proverbs 4:18But the path of the righteous is as the shining light, going on and brightening until the day be fully come.
Proverbs 24:20for there shall be no future to the evil [man]; the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Matthew 22:13Then said the king to the servants, Bind him feet and hands, and take him away, and cast him out into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:9
8 The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke. We are apt to judge of men's blessedness, at least in this world, by their wealth, and that they are more or less happy accordingly as they have more or less of this world's goods; but Solomon here shows what a gross mistake it is, that we may be reconciled to a poor condition, and may neither covet riches ourselves nor envy those that have abundance. 1. Those that are rich, if by some they are respected for their riches, yet, to balance… Read the whole commentary →