Proverbs 13:9
The light of the just giveth joy: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 are his riches: but he that is poor beareth not reprehension.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:36And to his son I will give one tribe, that there may remain a lamp for my servant David before me always in Jerusalem the city which I have chosen, that my name might be there.
Job 21:17How often shall the lamp of the wicked be put out, and a deluge come upon them, and he shall distribute the sorrows of his wrath?
Psalms 97:11Light is risen to the just, and joy to the right of heart.
Proverbs 4:18But the path of the just, as a shining light, goeth forwards and increaseth even to perfect day.
Proverbs 24:20For evil men have no hope of things to come, and the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Matthew 22:13Then the king said to the waiters: Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and 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 →