Proverbs 13:9
The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
In Context
8The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats.
10Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:36I will give one tribe to his son, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.
Job 21:17“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
Psalms 97:11Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
Proverbs 4:18But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.
Proverbs 24:20for there will be no reward to the evil man. The lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.
Matthew 22:13Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’
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 →