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Wednesday, November 27th, 2024
the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Proverbs 20:20

Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp [of life] will be extinguished in time of darkness.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Darkness;   Lamp;   Mother;   Thompson Chain Reference - Blasphemy-Profanity;   Children;   Cursing;   Darkness;   Filial Honour;   Honour;   Light-Darkness;   Mothers;   Respect;   Young People;   The Topic Concordance - Curses;   Parents;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Lamps;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Lamp;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Family Life and Relations;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lamp;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Prov'erbs, Book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Lamp;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Dark;   Obscurity;   Relationships, Family;   Woman;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ancestor Worship;   Cursing;   Eye;   Family and Family Life;   Fear of Man;   Furniture, Household;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
If you insult your father or mother, your light will be snuffed out in total darkness.
Update Bible Version
Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in the middle of the night.
New Century Version
Those who curse their father or mother will be like a light going out in darkness.
New English Translation
The one who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the blackest darkness.
Webster's Bible Translation
Whoever curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
World English Bible
Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
English Standard Version
If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The liyt of hym that cursith his fadir and modir, schal be quenchid in the myddis of derknessis.
English Revised Version
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in the blackest darkness.
Berean Standard Bible
Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
Contemporary English Version
Children who curse their parents will go to the land of darkness long before their time.
American Standard Version
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
Bible in Basic English
If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night.
Complete Jewish Bible
Whoever curses his father or mother — his lamp will go out in total darkness.
Darby Translation
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in the blackest darkness.
Easy-to-Read Version
Those who would curse their father or mother are like a lamp that goes out on the darkest night.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in the blackest darkness.
King James Version (1611)
Who so curseth his father or his mother, his lampe shall be put out in obscure darkenesse.
New Life Bible
If a son talks against his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in the time of darkness.
New Revised Standard
If you curse father or mother, your lamp will go out in utter darkness.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He that curseth his father or his mother, his light shalbe put out in obscure darkenes.
George Lamsa Translation
He who curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be extinguished.
Good News Translation
If you curse your parents, your life will end like a lamp that goes out in the dark.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Whoso revileth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He that curseth his father, and mother, his lamp shall be put out in the midst of darkness.
Revised Standard Version
If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Who so curseth his father and mother, his light shalbe put out in the depth of darknesse.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The lamp of him that reviles father or mother shall be put out, and his eyeballs shall see darkness.
Christian Standard Bible®
Whoever curses his father or mother —his lamp will go out in deep darkness.
Hebrew Names Version
Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
King James Version
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
Lexham English Bible
He who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the midst of darkness.
Literal Translation
Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.
Young's Literal Translation
Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Who so curseth his father and mother, his light shalbe put out in the myddest of darcknesse.
THE MESSAGE
Anyone who curses father and mother extinguishes light and exists benighted.
New American Standard Bible
He who curses his father or his mother, His lamp will go out in time of darkness.
New King James Version
Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp will be put out in deep darkness.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He who curses his father or his mother, His lamp will go out in time of darkness.
Legacy Standard Bible
He who curses his father or his mother,His lamp will go out in the midst of darkness.

Contextual Overview

20Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp [of life] will be extinguished in time of darkness.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

curseth: Proverbs 30:11, Proverbs 30:17, Exodus 20:12, Exodus 21:17, Leviticus 20:9, Deuteronomy 27:16, Matthew 15:4, Mark 7:10-13

his: Proverbs 13:9, Proverbs 24:20, Job 18:5, Job 18:6, Job 18:18, Matthew 22:13, Matthew 25:8, Jude 1:13

lamp: or, candle, Proverbs 20:27

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 21:18 - obey the voice 2 Samuel 18:9 - taken up Job 11:20 - their hope Job 12:5 - a lamp Job 21:17 - oft Job 29:3 - candle Ezekiel 22:7 - set Ezekiel 32:8 - dark Ephesians 6:2 - General Colossians 3:20 - obey 1 Timothy 1:9 - murderers

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Whoso curseth his father or his mother,.... This is dreadful indeed! a person must be got to a great pitch of wickedness to do this; to curse his parents, one or other of them, that have been the instruments of his being, and by whom he has been brought up and put out into the world; to slight them, despise them, and mock at them, is highly base and criminal, but to curse them is shocking! what can such expect but the curse of God upon them?

his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness; he shall be deprived of his natural sight; see Proverbs 30:17; or the very light of nature shall be extinct in him; and indeed such an one acts as if not guided by it, nor under its influence; or whatsoever favour from the Lord he has enjoyed, it shall be taken from him; his lamp or candle of outward felicity shall be quenched, and burn no longer; see Job 18:5; or his soul, the candle of the Lord, in him, Proverbs 20:27; shall be removed; or he "shall die", not only a corporeal but an eternal death; see

Exodus 21:17; "blackness of darkness" h as the words may be rendered, are reserved for him in the world to come, and which will be his portion, Judges 1:13.

h באישון חשך "in obscuritate tenebrarum", Pagninus, Mercerus; "in nigredine tenebrarum", Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A connecting link between Leviticus 20:9 and Matthew 15:4. The words, “his lamp shall be put out,” describe the failure of outward happiness.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 20:20. Whoso curseth his father — Such persons were put to death under the law; see Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9, and here it is said, Their lamp shall be put out-they shall have no posterity; God shall cut them off both root and branch.


 
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