Proverbs 13:9
The light of the righteous rejoiceth, And the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.
Young's Literal Translation
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 [are] his riches, And the poor hath not heard rebuke.
10A vain man through pride causeth debate, And with the counselled [is] wisdom.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:36and to his son I give one tribe, for there being a lamp to David My servant all the days before Me in Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen to Myself to put My name there.
Job 21:17How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger.
Psalms 97:11Light [is] sown for the righteous, And for the upright of heart — joy.
Proverbs 4:18And the path of the righteous [is] as a shining light, Going and brightening till the day is established,
Proverbs 24:20For there is not a posterity to the evil, The lamp of the wicked is extinguished.
Matthew 22:13'Then said the king to the ministrants, Having bound his feet and hands, take him up and cast forth to the outer darkness, there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the 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 →