Job 18:5
“Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.”
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
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Cross-References
“The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.”
“Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.”
“And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.”
“But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.”
“For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.”