Job 18:5
Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
Majority Standard Bible
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
6The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
Cross References
Job 20:5the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
Proverbs 4:19But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
Proverbs 20:20Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
Proverbs 24:20For the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be 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 →