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Proverbs 24:20
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For there will be no future for the evil one;The lamp of the wicked will go out.
For there will be no future for the evil man; The lamp of the wicked will be put out.
For the wicked shall haue no posteritie, and the candle of the vngodly shalbe put out.
for there shall be no future to the evil [man]; the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
For there will be no prospect for the evil man; The lamp of the wicked will be put out.
for no hereafter shall be to the evil; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.
They have no hope. Their light will burn out.
For there will be no reward to the evil man; And the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.
For there shall be no reward to the euill man: the candle of the wicked shall be put out.
For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.
And why? ye wicked hath nothinge to hope for, & ye cadle of the vngodly shall be put out.
For there will be no future for the evil man; The lamp of the wicked will be put out.
For there shall be no reward to the evil man; The lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
For there will be no future for the evil man; the light of sinners will be put out.
For there shall be no reward to the evil man; The lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
For there shall be no reward to the evil [man]; the candle of the wicked shall be extinguished.
They will soon be gone like the flame of a lamp that burns out.
For the evil person has no future — the lamp of the wicked will go out.
For there shall bee none ende of plagues to the euill man: the light of the wicked shall bee put out.
For there shall be no future for evil men, and the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
For there will be no reward to the evil man; And the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.
For there will be no future to the evil man, the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
For evil people have no future; the light of the wicked will be snuffed out.
For there will be no future for the sinful man. The lamp of the sinful will be put out.
For the evil man shall have no posterity: and the light of the wicked shall be put out.
For there will be no reward to the evil man; the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
For the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.
for the evil have no future; the lamp of the wicked will go out.
For there shall be no future for the wicked, The lamp of the lawless, shall go out.
For evil men have no hope of things to come, and the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
For there will not be a future for the evil; the lamp of the wicked will die out.
for the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.
For there will be no future for the evil person; The lamp of the wicked will be put out.
An evil person has nothing to hope for; the wicked will die like a flame that is put out.
A wicked person has no future—nothing to look forward to.
For the evil have no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.
For whi yuele men han not hope of thingis to comynge, and the lanterne of wickid men schal be quenchid.
for the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.
For there is not a posterity to the evil, The lamp of the wicked is extinguished.
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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.
