Proverbs 24:20

for the evil person has no future, ¹  and the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished. ² 

for the evil man has no future hope, and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.

For there will be no future for the evil man; The lamp of the wicked will be put out.

For the evil have no future; their light will be snuffed out.

Those people have no future at all; they're headed down a dead-end street.

For there will be no future for the evil man; the light of sinners will be put out.

for the evil have no future; the lamp of the wicked will go out.

For there will be no prospect for the evil man ; The lamp of the wicked will be put out.

for the evil person has no future, ¹  and the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished. ² 

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.