Proverbs 13:9 - The Scriptures 2009

⁹ The light of the righteous rejoices, But the lamp of the wrong is put out.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ The light of the [uncompromisingly] righteous [is within him–it grows brighter and] rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked [furnishes only a derived, temporary light and] shall be put out shortly.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ The light of the righteous rejoiceth; But the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

Common English Bible

⁹ The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked goes out.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ The light of the just enriches. But the lamp of the impious will be extinguished.

Proverbs 13:9 Cross References

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, That shines ever brighter unto the perfect day.

Proverbs 24:20

For there is no future for the evil-doer; The lamp of the wrongdoers is put out.

Proverbs 20:20

Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp is put out in deep darkness.

Psalm 112:4

Zayin Light has risen in the darkness to the straight ones, Those showing favour, Ḥet The compassionate, And the righteous.

Psalm 97:11

Light is sown for the righteous, And gladness for the upright in heart.

Matthew 25:8

And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us of your oil, because our lamps are going out.’ ”

1 Kings 11:36

And to his son I give one tribe, so that My servant Dawiḏ shall always have a lamp before Me in Yerushalayim, the city which I have chosen for Myself, to put My Name there.

Job 29:3

when His lamp shone on my head, when I walked in the dark by His light;

Job 21:17

How often is the lamp of the wrong put out, and does come upon them their calamity, sorrows He allots in His displeasure?

Matthew 22:13

“Then the sovereign said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him out into the outer darkness – there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

Proverbs 13:8

The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, But the poor does not hear rebuke.

Proverbs 13:10

By pride comes only strife, But wisdom is with those who take advice.

Ezekiel 32:7

And when I extinguish you, I shall cover the heavens, and make its stars dark. I shall cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

Numbers 27:4

“Why should the name of our father be removed from among his clan because he had no son? Give us a possession among the brothers of our father.”