Verse 17

¶ How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and [how oft] cometh their destruction upon them! [God] distributeth sorrows in his anger.

Referenced Verses

• Job 18:5-6 : 5 ¶ Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. 6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
• Job 18:18 : 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
• Ps 32:10 : 10 Many sorrows [shall be] to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
• Ps 90:7-9 : 7 ¶ For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale [that is told].
• Prov 13:9 : 9 ¶ The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
• Prov 20:20 : 20 ¶ Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
• Prov 24:20 : 20 For there shall be no reward to the evil [man]; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.
• Matt 25:8 : 8 ‹And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.›
• Luke 12:46 : 46 ‹The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for› [him], ‹and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.›
• Rom 2:8-9 : 8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;