Proverbs 24:20
Modern Translations
New International Version
for the evildoer has no future hope, and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.

New Living Translation
For evil people have no future; the light of the wicked will be snuffed out.

English Standard Version
for the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

Berean Study Bible
For the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.

New American Standard Bible
For there will be no future for the evil person; The lamp of the wicked will be put out.

NASB 1995
For there will be no future for the evil man; The lamp of the wicked will be put out.

NASB 1977
For there will be no future for the evil man; The lamp of the wicked will be put out.

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

Christian Standard Bible
For the evil have no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For the evil have no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

Contemporary English Version
They will soon be gone like the flame of a lamp that burns out.

Good News Translation
A wicked person has no future--nothing to look forward to.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
because an evil person has no future, and the lamps of wicked people will be snuffed out.

International Standard Version
For the wicked man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.

NET Bible
for the evil person has no future, and the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.

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

King James 2000 Bible
For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

New Heart English Bible
for there will be no reward to the evil man; and the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.

World English Bible
for there will be no reward to the evil man; and the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.

American King James Version
For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.

American Standard Version
For there shall be no reward to the evil man; The lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

A Faithful Version
For there shall not be a reward to the evil man; the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

Darby Bible Translation
for there shall be no future to the evil [man]; the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

English Revised Version
For there will be no reward to the evil man; the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

Webster's Bible Translation
For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be extinguished.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For there shall bee none ende of plagues to the euill man: the light of the wicked shall bee put out.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For the wicked shall haue no posteritie, and the candle of the vngodly shalbe put out.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
And why? ye wicked hath nothinge to hope for, & ye cadle of the vngodly shall be put out.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
For there is not a posterity to the evil, "" The lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

Young's Literal Translation
For there is not a posterity to the evil, The lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

Smith's Literal Translation
For there shall be no latter state to the evil one: the light of the unjust shall be extinguished.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For evil men have no hope of things to come, and the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

Catholic Public Domain Version
For the evil hold no hope in the future, and the lamp of the impious will be extinguished.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Because there is no posterity to the evil ones and the lamp of the evil will be extinguished.

Lamsa Bible
For there shall be no future for evil men, and the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
For there will be no future to the evil man, The lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For the evil man shall have no posterity: and the light of the wicked shall be put out.
















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