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Proverbs 20:20
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He who curses his father or his mother,His lamp will go out in the midst of darkness.
He who curses his father or his mother, His lamp will go out in time of darkness.
Who so curseth his father and mother, his light shalbe put out in the depth of darknesse.
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in the blackest darkness.
Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp will be put out in deep darkness.
Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.
Those who would curse their father or mother are like a lamp that goes out on the darkest night.
Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
Who so curseth his father or his mother, his lampe shall be put out in obscure darkenesse.
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
Who so curseth his father and mother, his light shalbe put out in the myddest of darcknesse.
Anyone who curses father and mother extinguishes light and exists benighted.
Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp [of life] will be extinguished in time of darkness.
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night.
Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in the middle of the night.
Whoever curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
The one who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the blackest darkness.
Children who curse their parents will go to the land of darkness long before their time.
Whoever curses his father or mother — his lamp will go out in total darkness.
He that curseth his father or his mother, his light shalbe put out in obscure darkenes.
He who curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be extinguished.
Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in the blackest darkness.
If a son talks against his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in the time of darkness.
The lamp of him that reviles father or mother shall be put out, and his eyeballs shall see darkness.
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in the blackest darkness.
Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
If you curse father or mother, your lamp will go out in utter darkness.
Whoso revileth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.
He that curseth his father, and mother, his lamp shall be put out in the midst of darkness.
He who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the midst of darkness.
If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.
He who curses his father or his mother, His lamp will go out in time of darkness.
Those who curse their father or mother will be like a light going out in darkness.
If you curse your parents, your life will end like a lamp that goes out in the dark.
Whoever curses his father or mother— his lamp will go out in deep darkness.
The liyt of hym that cursith his fadir and modir, schal be quenchid in the myddis of derknessis.
If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.
Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.
Contextual Overview
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.
