Proverbs 13:9
The life of good people shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
In Context
8The rich can pay a ransom to save their lives, but the poor aren't troubled in this way.
10Pride only causes conflict; but those who take advice are wise.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:36I will give his son one tribe, so that my servant David will always have a descendant like a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to be honored.
Job 21:17How often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out? How often does disaster come upon them? How often does God punish the wicked in his anger?
Psalms 97:11Light shines on those who do good, giving joy to those who live right.
Proverbs 4:18The way of life of the good is like the light of the sunrise, glowing brighter and brighter until the full light of day shines out.
Proverbs 24:20for evil people have no future—the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.
Matthew 22:13Then the king told his servants, ‘Bind his hands and feet, and throw him out into the dark, where there'll be crying and grinding 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 →