Proverbs 13:9
The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Revised Version 1895
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 heareth no threatening.
10By pride cometh only contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:36And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
Job 21:17How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? that their calamity cometh upon them? that God distributeth 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 as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Proverbs 24:20For there will be no reward to the evil man; the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Matthew 22:13Then the king said to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and cast him out into the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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 →