Proverbs 13:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

Proverbs 13:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Proverbs 24:20
For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.
Proverbs 20:20
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
Psalms 112:4
Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
Psalms 97:11
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

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Candle Dead (people)Death Dying Gladness Happiness Joy Lamp

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9)

Here is, 1. The comfort of good men flourishing and lasting: The light of the righteous rejoices, that is, it increases, and makes them glad. Even their outward prosperity is their joy, and much more those gifts, graces, and comforts, with which their souls are illuminated; these shine more and more, Prov. 4:18. The Spirit is their light, and he gives them a fulness of joy, and rejoices to do them…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. light ... lamp--prosperity; the first, the greater, and it rejoiceth--burns brightly, or continues, while the other, at best small, soon fails.