Proverbs 24:20
For there is not a posterity to the evil, || The lamp of the wicked is extinguished.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.
In Context
19Do not fret yourself at evildoers, do not be envious at the wicked,
21Fear YHWH, my son, and the king, || Do not mix yourself up with changers,
Cross References
Job 18:5Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there does not shine a spark of his fire.
Psalms 9:17The wicked turn back to Sheol, || All nations forgetting God.
Psalms 37:2For they are cut off speedily as grass, || And fade as the greenness of the tender grass.
Proverbs 20:20Whoever is vilifying his father and his mother, his lamp is extinguished in blackness of darkness.
Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked—evil, || Because the deed of his hand is done to him.
Matthew 25:8and the foolish said to the prudent, Give us of your oil, because our lamps are going out;
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 24:20-21
19 Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked; 20 For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out. Here, 1. He repeats the caution he had before given against envying the pleasures and successes of wicked man in their wicked ways. This he quotes from his father David, Ps. xxxvii. 1 . We must not in any case fret ourselves, or make ourselves uneasy, whatever God does in his providence how disagreeable soever it is to our sentiments, interests,… Read the whole commentary →