Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

For there will be no future for the evil man;
The lamp of the wicked will be put out.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

For the evil have no future;
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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אחרית 
'achariyth 
Usage: 61

to the evil
רעה רע 
Ra` 
Usage: 669

man the candle
נרה נר ניר נר ניר 
Niyr 
Usage: 48

of the wicked
רשׁע 
Rasha` 
Usage: 263

References

Easton

Morish

Context Readings

Learning From Your Father

19 Do not worry about evil people. Do not envy the wicked! 20 For there will be no future for the evil man;
The lamp of the wicked will be put out.
21 My son, respect Jehovah and the king. Do not associate with those who want to change things.

Cross References

Proverbs 13:9

The light of the righteous rejoices but the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

Job 18:5-6

The lamp of the wicked is snuffed out. The flame of his fire shall not shine.

Job 21:17

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? How often does calamity come upon them? How often does God distribute pains and sorrow in his anger?

Proverbs 20:20

He who curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in obscure darkness.

Psalm 9:17

The grave is the destiny of all the wicked, of all those who reject God.

Psalm 11:6

He rains down fire and burning sulfur upon wicked people. He makes them drink from a cup filled with scorching wind.

Proverbs 23:18

Surely there is a future hope and you will not be disappointed.

Isaiah 3:11

How horrible it will be for the wicked! Disaster will strike them. What they have done to others will be done to them.

Matthew 8:12

but the sons of the kingdom will be cast forth into the outer darkness: there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 25:8

All the foolish virgins said to the wise: 'Give us your oil, for our lamps are going out.'

Jude 1:13

They are wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame. They are wandering stars, for which the black darkness has been reserved forever.

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