Job 18:5

World English Bible (2000)

"Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

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Referenced Verses

  • 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 his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
  • Prov 24:20 : 20 for there will be no reward to the evil man; and the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.
  • Job 21:17 : 17 "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.
  • Job 20:5 : 5 that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
  • Isa 50:11 : 11 Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves; walk in the flame of your fire, and among the brands that you have kindled. You shall have this of my hand; you shall lie down in sorrow.

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  • Job 18:6-7
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    6The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.

    7The steps of his strength shall be shortened. His own counsel shall cast him down.

  • Prov 13:9
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    9The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.

  • Prov 24:20
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    20for there will be no reward to the evil man; and the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.

  • Job 20:26-27
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    26All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

    27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. The earth shall rise up against him.

  • Job 18:15-18
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    15There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation.

    16His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.

    17His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.

    18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

  • Job 15:29-30
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    29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

    30He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.

  • Job 21:16-17
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    16Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

    17"How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

  • Job 38:15
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    15From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

  • Amos 5:20
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    20Won't the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

  • Isa 9:18-19
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    18For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

    19Through the wrath of Yahweh of Armies, the land is burnt up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.

  • Isa 50:11
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    11Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves; walk in the flame of your fire, and among the brands that you have kindled. You shall have this of my hand; you shall lie down in sorrow.

  • Job 3:4-6
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    4Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

    5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

    6As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.

  • Job 3:9
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    9Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

  • Isa 13:10
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    10For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

  • Ezek 32:7-8
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    7When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.

    8All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Ps 112:10
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    10The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.

  • Isa 1:31
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    31The strong will be like tinder, and his work like a spark. They will both burn together, and no one will quench them."

  • Eccl 8:13
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    13But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.

  • Job 10:22
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    22the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"

  • Prov 4:19
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    19The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

  • Ps 37:10
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    10For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn't there.

  • Ps 18:28
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    28For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

  • Job 18:4
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    4You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

  • Nah 1:8
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    8But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

  • Job 22:20
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    20saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.'

  • Job 17:12
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    12They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

  • Ps 11:6
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    6On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

  • 2 Sam 22:13
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    13At the brightness before him, coals of fire were kindled.

  • Prov 20:20
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    20Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

  • Isa 47:14
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    14Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.

  • Job 34:22
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    22There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

  • Job 11:20
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    20But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. They shall have no way to flee. Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit."

  • Job 41:19
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    19Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap forth.

  • Job 29:3
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    3when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

  • Job 38:19
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    19"What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

  • Job 25:5
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    5Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;

  • Job 19:8
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    8He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

  • Job 5:14
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    14They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

  • Ps 58:9
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    9Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.