Parallel Verses
Amplified
For there will be no future for the evil man;
The lamp of the wicked will be put out.
New American Standard Bible
The
King James Version
For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.
Holman Bible
the lamp of the wicked will be put out.
International Standard Version
For the wicked man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.
A Conservative Version
For there shall be no reward to the evil man. The lamp of the wicked shall be put 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.
Darby Translation
for there shall be no future to the evil man; the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Julia Smith Translation
For there shall be no latter state to the evil one: the light of the unjust shall be extinguished.
King James 2000
For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For there will not be a future for the evil; the lamp of the wicked will die out.
Modern King James verseion
for there shall not be a hereafter to the evil; the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And why? The wicked hath nothing to hope for, and the candle of the ungodly shall be put out.
NET Bible
for the evil person has no future, and the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.
New Heart English Bible
for there will be no reward to the evil man; and the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.
The Emphasized Bible
For there shall be no future for the wicked, The lamp of the lawless, shall go out.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
For there is not a posterity to the evil, The lamp of the wicked is extinguished.
Themes
Anxiety » Why you should not be anxious
Profit and loss » Profit » Sin unprofitable, general references to
Interlinear
'achariyth
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 24:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Learning From Your Father
19
Do not get upset because of evildoers,
Or be envious of the wicked,
For there will be no future for the evil man;
The lamp of the wicked will be put out.
My son, fear the Lord and the king;
And do not associate with those who are given to change [of allegiance, and are revolutionary],
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 13:9
The light of the righteous [within him—grows brighter and] rejoices,
But the lamp of the wicked [is a temporary light and] goes out.
Job 18:5-6
“Indeed, the light of the wicked will be put out,
And the flame of his fire will not shine.
Job 21:17
“How often [then] is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out,
And that their disaster falls on them?
Does God distribute pain and destruction and sorrow [to them] in His anger?
Proverbs 20:20
Whoever curses his father or his mother,
His lamp [of life] will be extinguished in time of darkness.
Psalm 9:17
The wicked will turn to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
Even all the nations who forget God.
Psalm 11:6
Upon the wicked (godless) He will rain coals of fire;
Fire and
Proverbs 23:18
Surely there is a future [and a reward],
And your hope and expectation will not be cut off.
Isaiah 3:11
Woe (judgment is coming) to the wicked! It shall go badly with him,
For what his hand has done shall be done to him.
Matthew 8:12
Matthew 25:8
Jude 1:13
wild waves of the sea, flinging up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of deep darkness has been reserved forever.