Proverbs 24:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.

Proverbs 24:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 13:9
The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Job 18:5-6
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. …
Proverbs 20:20
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
Job 21:17
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
Psalms 11:6
Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 19-20)

Here, 1. He repeats the caution he had before given against envying the pleasures and successes of wicked man in their wicked ways. This he quotes from his father David, Ps. 37:1. We must not in any case fret ourselves, or make ourselves uneasy, whatever God does in his providence how disagreeable soever it is to our sentiments, interests, and expectations, we must acquiesce in it. Even that which…

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

(vv. 20)

19-20. (Psa 37:1, 38; 18:28).