Proverbs 24:20

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

for the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

Cross References

Proverbs 13:9

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

Proverbs 20:20

If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.

Psalm 11:6

On the wicked he will rain coals of fire and brimstone; a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

Job 21:17

“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger?

Jude 1:13

wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars for whom the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved for ever.

Matthew 25:8

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

Matthew 8:12

while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.”

Isaiah 3:11

Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for what his hands have done shall be done to him.

Proverbs 23:18

Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

Psalm 9:17

The wicked shall depart to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.

Job 15:31

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his recompense.

Proverbs 17:20

A man of crooked mind does not prosper, and one with a perverse tongue falls into calamity.

Proverbs 21:4

Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin.

Psalm 37:2

For they will soon fade like the grass, and wither like the green herb.