Job 18:5

Ah, truly the light of the wicked will be quenched, and the spark of his fire shall not give light.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

In Context

4Thou, the one that teareth himself to pieces in his anger— shall for thy sake the earth be forsaken, and the rock be moved away out of its place?

6The light becometh dark in his tent, and his lamp will be quenched above him.

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Cross References

Job 20:5That the triumphal shouting of the wicked is ever of but a recent date, and the joy of the hypocrite endureth only for a moment.

Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is like darkness: they know not against what they stumble.

Proverbs 20:20Whoso curseth his father or his mother—his lamp shall be quenched in obscure darkness.

Proverbs 24:20For there will be no [happy] future for the bad man: the lamp of the wicked will be quenched.

Matthew Henry on Job 18:2-5

Second Address of Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. 3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight? 4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? Bildad here shoots his arrows, even bitter words, against poor Job, little thinking that, though he was a wise and good man, in this instance he was… Read the whole commentary →

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