Verse 17

How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished? Disaster comes upon them as calamities God apportions in his anger.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 18:5-6 : 5 Indeed, the light of the wicked will be extinguished, and the flame of his fire will not shine. 6 The light in his tent will grow dark, and the lamp above him will be extinguished.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 He is driven from light into darkness and chased out of the world.
  • Ps 32:10 : 10 Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but the steadfast love of the Lord surrounds those who trust in him.
  • Ps 90:7-9 : 7 We are consumed by your anger, and terrified by your wrath. 8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. 9 All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a sigh.
  • Prov 13:9 : 9 The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoever curses their father or mother, their lamp will be extinguished in utter darkness.
  • Prov 24:20 : 20 For the wicked have no future; the light of the wicked will be snuffed out.
  • Matt 25:8 : 8 The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.’
  • Luke 12:46 : 46 the master of that servant will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not know. He will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the unfaithful.
  • Rom 2:8-9 : 8 But to those who are self-seeking, who disobey the truth and obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and anger. 9 There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does what is evil, first for the Jew, then also for the Gentile.