Ecclesiastes 24:20

Nova Vulgata

quoniam non erit posteritas maligno, et lucerna impiorum exstinguetur.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
quoniam non habent futurorum spem mali, et lucerna impiorum extinguetur.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
quoniam non habent futurorum spem mali,
et lucerna impiorum extinguetur.

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.