Job 18:5
Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
BSB
ASV
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine.
KJV
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Shall not the light of the wicked be put out, and the flame of his fire cease to shine? If he says this in describing the present life, he is mistaken; in that very often both the light of prosperity is seen in the ungodly, and the darkness of ignominy and poverty envelopes the godly. But if his discourse points to this, viz. to shew what the ungodly meet with in their end, it is said with truth, Shall not the light of the wicked be put out, and the flame of his fire cease to shine?
In this he seems, all along, to have an eye to Job's complaints of the miserable condition he was in, that he was in the dark, bewildered, ensnared, terrified, and hastening out of the world. "This," says Bildad, "is the condition of a wicked man; and therefore thou art one." Second Address of Eliphaz.
Yea - Truly; or, behold. Bildad here commences his remarks on the certain destiny of the wicked, and strings together a number of apparently proverbial sayings, showing that calamity in various forms would certainly overtake the wicked. There is nothing particularly new in his argument, though the use of the various images which he employs shows how deep was the conviction of this doctrine at that time, and how extensively it prevailed. The light of the wicked shall be put out - Light here is an emblem of prosperity.
That (Job 18:4) cannot be. The decree of God is unalterable, the light (prosperity) of the wicked shall at length be put out. his fire--alluding to Arabian hospitality, which prided itself on welcoming the stranger to the fire in the tent, and even lit fires to direct him to it. The ungodly shall be deprived of the means to show hospitality.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Proverbs 13:9The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.
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For the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
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Proverbs 20:20Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
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Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death.
There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
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Job 21:17How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
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Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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Proverbs 24:20For the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.
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The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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Isaiah 50:11Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who array yourselves with firebrands, walk in the light of your fire and of the firebrands you have lit! This is what you will receive from My…
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This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.