Job 18:5

Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there does not shine a spark of his fire.

Literal Standard Version

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

4He is tearing himself in his anger. Is earth forsaken for your sake? And is a rock removed from its place?

6The light has been dark in his tent, || And his lamp over him is extinguished.

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Cross References

Job 20:5That the singing of the wicked [is] short, || And the joy of the profane for a moment,

Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked [is] as darkness, || They have not known at what they stumble.

Proverbs 20:20Whoever is vilifying his father and his mother, his lamp is extinguished in blackness of darkness.

Proverbs 24:20For there is not a posterity to the evil, || The lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

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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