Job 18:5
Even the light of the lawless, shall go out,—Neither shall shine the flame of his fire;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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, hath darkened in his tent, Yea, his lamp above him, goeth out;
Cross References
Job 20:5That, the joy-shout of the lawless, is short, and, the rejoicing of the impious, for a moment?
Proverbs 4:19The way of the lawless, is like darkness, they know not, at what they stumble.
Proverbs 20:20Whoso revileth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.
Proverbs 24:20For there shall be no future for the wicked, The lamp of the lawless, shall go out.
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 →