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Thursday, November 28th, 2024
the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Proverbs 24:20

For there will be no future for the evil man; The lamp of the wicked will be put out.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Death;   Wicked (People);   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Profit and Loss;   Sin;   Unprofitable, Sin;   The Topic Concordance - Anxiety;   Evil;   Wickedness;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Destroy, Destruction;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Candle;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Candle;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Candle;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ancestor Worship;   Lamp, Perpetual;   Midrash Haggadah;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for December 22;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
For evil people have no future; the light of the wicked will be snuffed out.
Update Bible Version
For there shall be no reward to the evil man; The lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
New Century Version
An evil person has nothing to hope for; the wicked will die like a flame that is put out.
New English Translation
for the evil person has no future, and the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.
Webster's Bible Translation
For there shall be no reward to the evil [man]; the candle of the wicked shall be extinguished.
World English Bible
For there will be no reward to the evil man; And the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.
English Standard Version
for the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For whi yuele men han not hope of thingis to comynge, and the lanterne of wickid men schal be quenchid.
English Revised Version
For there will be no reward to the evil man; the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Berean Standard Bible
For the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.
Contemporary English Version
They will soon be gone like the flame of a lamp that burns out.
American Standard Version
For there shall be no reward to the evil man; The lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Bible in Basic English
For there will be no future for the evil man; the light of sinners will be put out.
Complete Jewish Bible
For the evil person has no future — the lamp of the wicked will go out.
Darby Translation
for there shall be no future to the evil [man]; the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Easy-to-Read Version
They have no hope. Their light will burn out.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For there will be no future to the evil man, the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
King James Version (1611)
For there shall be no reward to the euill man: the candle of the wicked shall be put out.
New Life Bible
For there will be no future for the sinful man. The lamp of the sinful will be put out.
New Revised Standard
for the evil have no future; the lamp of the wicked will go out.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For there shall bee none ende of plagues to the euill man: the light of the wicked shall bee put out.
George Lamsa Translation
For there shall be no future for evil men, and the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Good News Translation
A wicked person has no future—nothing to look forward to.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For there shall be no future for the wicked, The lamp of the lawless, shall go out.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For evil men have no hope of things to come, and the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Revised Standard Version
for the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the wicked shall haue no posteritie, and the candle of the vngodly shalbe put out.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For the evil man shall have no posterity: and the light of the wicked shall be put out.
Christian Standard Bible®
For the evil have no future;the lamp of the wicked will be put out.
Hebrew Names Version
For there will be no reward to the evil man; And the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.
King James Version
For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.
Lexham English Bible
For there will not be a future for the evil; the lamp of the wicked will die out.
Literal Translation
for no hereafter shall be to the evil; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.
Young's Literal Translation
For there is not a posterity to the evil, The lamp of the wicked is extinguished.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And why? ye wicked hath nothinge to hope for, & ye cadle of the vngodly shall be put out.
New American Standard Bible
For there will be no future for the evil person; The lamp of the wicked will be put out.
New King James Version
For there will be no prospect for the evil man; The lamp of the wicked will be put out.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For there will be no future for the evil man; The lamp of the wicked will be put out.
Legacy Standard Bible
For there will be no future for the evil one;The lamp of the wicked will go out.

Contextual Overview

19Do not get upset because of evildoers, Or be envious of the wicked, 20For there will be no future for the evil man; The lamp of the wicked will be put out.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

there: Psalms 9:17, Psalms 11:6, Isaiah 3:11

candle: or, lamp, Proverbs 13:9, Proverbs 20:20, Job 18:5, Job 18:6, Job 21:17, Matthew 8:12, Matthew 25:8, Jude 1:13

Reciprocal: Job 29:3 - candle Proverbs 3:31 - Envy Revelation 18:23 - the light

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For there shall be no reward to the evil [man],.... No reward of good things, such as is for the righteous in a way of grace; but he shall have a reward of evil things, a just recompence of reward for his sins: of "no end" r; there will be an end of his life in this world, and there will be an end of his prosperity; but, as the Targum is, there will be no "good end" to him; his end will not be like that of the perfect and upright man, for it will be cut off, Psalms 37:37; or, as the Vulgate Latin version renders it, "the wicked have no hope of future things"; no good hope of everlasting happiness; they have their good things now, and their evil things hereafter; and therefore are not to be fretted at and envied. Aben Ezra interprets it, they shall have no offspring or issue, son or nephew; the word is sometimes used for posterity;

the candle of the wicked shall be put out; meaning not the dim light of nature in them, nor the light of life before their time, so Aben Ezra; but their prosperity, riches, splendour, and glory, which candle is often put out while they live, and always at death; after which they have no more light, honour, and happiness; even not so much as the light of a candle, to which their prosperity in this life is compared, it being at best but small, and of a short continuance; see

Job 18:5; and therefore should not be the object of the envy of good men, who are in a more happy and stable condition than they.

r אחרית "finis", Pagninus, Vatablus, Baynus, Junius & Tremellius, Mercerus, Gejerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

No reward - literally, “no future,” no life worthy to be called life, no blessing.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 24:20. For there shall be no reward to the evil man — אחרית acharith. There shall not be the future state of blessedness to the wicked. Proverbs 24:14. His candle shall be put out; his prosperity shall finally cease, or he shall have no posterity. Some have thought that this text intimates the annihilation of sinners; but it refers not to being, but to the state or condition of that being. The wicked shall be; but they shall not be HAPPY.


 
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