Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
For there shall be no reward to the evil man. The lamp of the wicked shall 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.
American Standard Version
For there shall be no reward to the evil man; The lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Amplified
For there will be no future for the evil man;
The lamp of the wicked will 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 Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, nor be thou envious at the wicked. 20 For there shall be no reward to the evil man. The lamp of the wicked shall be put out. 21 My son, fear thou LORD and the king, [and] do not associate with those who are given to change.
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 13:9
The light of the righteous rejoices, 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.
Job 21:17
How often is it that the lamp of the profane is put out, that their calamity comes upon them, that [God] distributes sorrows in his anger,
Proverbs 20:20
He who curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
Psalm 9:17
Wicked men shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
Psalm 11:6
He will rain snares upon sinners. Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.
Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked! [It is] ill [with him], for what his hands have done shall be done to him.
Matthew 8:12
but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 25:8
And the foolish said to the wise, Give us from your olive oil, because our lamps are going out.
Jude 1:13
wild waves of the sea foaming out their own shame, wandering stars for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved into an age.