Proverbs 24:20
ContextNETBible | for the evil person has no future, 1 and the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished. 2 |
XREF | Job 18:5,6; Job 21:17; Ps 9:17; Ps 11:6; Pr 13:9; Pr 20:20; Isa 3:11; Mt 8:12; Mt 25:8; Jude 1:13 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “there is no end [i.e., future] for the evil.” 2 sn The saying warns against envying the wicked; v. 19 provides the instruction, and v. 20 the motivation. The motivation is that there is no future hope for them – nothing to envy, or as C. H. Toy explains, there will be no good outcome for their lives (Proverbs [ICC], 449). They will die suddenly, as the implied comparison with the lamp being snuffed out signifies. |