Proverbs 13:9

New American Bible - revised edition

The light of the just gives joy, but the lamp of the wicked goes out.

Cross References

1 Kings 11:36

I will give his son one tribe, that David my servant may always have a holding before me in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen, to set my name there.

Job 21:17

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? How often does destruction come upon them, the portion God allots in his anger?

Job 29:3

While he kept his lamp shining above my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

Psalm 112:4

Light shines through the darkness for the upright; gracious, compassionate, and righteous.

Psalm 97:11

Light dawns for the just, and gladness for the honest of heart.

Proverbs 13:10

The stupid sow discord by their insolence, but wisdom is with those who take counsel.

Proverbs 13:8

People’s riches serve as ransom for their lives, but the poor do not even hear a threat.

Proverbs 20:20

Those who curse father or mother— their lamp will go out in the dead of night.

Proverbs 24:20

For the evil have no future, the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the just is like shining light, that grows in brilliance till perfect day.

Ezekiel 32:7

When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken all its stars. The sun I will cover with clouds; the moon will not give light.

Numbers 27:4

But why should our father’s name be cut off from his clan merely because he had no son? Give us land among our father’s kindred.” Laws Concerning Heiresses.

Matthew 22:13

Then the king said to his attendants, ‘Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the darkness outside, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.’

Matthew 25:8

The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’