Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version If someone curses their father or mother, their lamp will be snuffed out in pitch darkness. New Living Translation If you insult your father or mother, your light will be snuffed out in total darkness. English Standard Version If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness. Berean Standard Bible Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness. King James Bible Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. New King James Version Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp will be put out in deep darkness. New American Standard Bible He who curses his father or his mother, His lamp will go out in time of darkness. NASB 1995 He who curses his father or his mother, His lamp will go out in time of darkness. NASB 1977 He who curses his father or his mother, His lamp will go out in time of darkness. Legacy Standard Bible He who curses his father or his mother, His lamp will go out in the midst of darkness. Amplified Bible Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp [of life] will be extinguished in time of darkness. Christian Standard Bible Whoever curses his father or mother — his lamp will go out in deep darkness. Holman Christian Standard Bible Whoever curses his father or mother— his lamp will go out in deep darkness. American Standard Version Whoso curseth his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness. Aramaic Bible in Plain English He that curses his father and his mother will extinguish his lamp as dark pupils. Brenton Septuagint Translation The lamp of him that reviles father or mother shall be put out, and his eyeballs shall see darkness. Contemporary English Version Children who curse their parents will go to the land of darkness long before their time. Douay-Rheims Bible He that curseth his father, and mother, his lamp shall be put out in the midst of darkness. English Revised Version Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in the blackest darkness. GOD'S WORD® Translation The lamp of the person who curses his father and mother will be snuffed out in total darkness. Good News Translation If you curse your parents, your life will end like a lamp that goes out in the dark. International Standard Version Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the deepest darkness. JPS Tanakh 1917 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in the blackest darkness. Literal Standard Version Whoever is vilifying his father and his mother, his lamp is extinguished in blackness of darkness. Majority Standard Bible Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness. New American Bible Those who curse father or mother— their lamp will go out in the dead of night. NET Bible The one who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the blackest darkness. New Revised Standard Version If you curse father or mother, your lamp will go out in utter darkness. New Heart English Bible Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness. Webster's Bible Translation Whoever curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. World English Bible Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness. Young's Literal Translation Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Wine is a Mocker…19He who reveals secrets is a constant gossip; avoid the one who babbles with his lips. 20Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness. 21An inheritance gained quickly will not be blessed in the end.… Cross References Matthew 15:4 For God said, 'Honor your father and mother' and 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.' Exodus 21:17 Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death. Leviticus 20:9 If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood shall be upon him. Job 18:5 Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow. Proverbs 13:9 The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is extinguished. Proverbs 20:21 An inheritance gained quickly will not be blessed in the end. Proverbs 24:20 For the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished. Treasury of Scripture Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. curseth Proverbs 30:11,17 There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother… Exodus 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Exodus 21:17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. lamp or candle Proverbs 20:27 The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly. Jump to Previous Blackest Blackness Curse Curses Curseth Darkness Extinguished Lamp Mother Night Obscure Pitch Puts Snuffed Time UtterJump to Next Blackest Blackness Curse Curses Curseth Darkness Extinguished Lamp Mother Night Obscure Pitch Puts Snuffed Time UtterProverbs 20 1. Proper Living(20) His lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.--See above, on Proverbs 13:9.Verse 20. - This is an enforcement of the fifth commandment, by denouncing the punishment which the moral government of God shall exact from the unnatural child. The legal penalty may be seen (Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9); but this was probably seldom or never carried into execution (comp. Matthew 15:4; Mark 7:10). His lamp shall be put out in obscure (the blackest) darkness (comp. Proverbs 13:9). The expression is peculiar; it is literally, according to the Khetib, In the apple of the eye of darkness, as in Proverbs 7:9; i.e. in the very centre of darkness; he will find himself surrounded on all sides by midnight darkness, without escape, with no hope of Divine protection. "Lamp" is a metaphor applied to the bodily and the spiritual life, to happiness and prosperity, to a man's fame and reputation, to a man's posterity; and all these senses may be involved in the denunciation of the disobedient and stubborn child. He shall suffer in body and soul, in character, in fortune, in his children. His fate is the exact counterpart of the blessing promised in the Law. Septuagint, "The lamp of him that revileth father and mother shall be extinguished, and the pupils of his eyes shall behold darkness." Talmud, "Whosoever abandons his parents means his body to become the prey of scorpions." Cato, 'Dist.,' 3:23 - "Dilige non aegra caros pietate parentes; Hebrew Whoever cursesמְ֭קַלֵּל (mə·qal·lêl) Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 7043: To be slight, swift or trifling his father אָבִ֣יו (’ā·ḇîw) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 1: Father or mother, וְאִמּ֑וֹ (wə·’im·mōw) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 517: A mother, ) his lamp נֵ֝ר֗וֹ (nê·rōw) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 5216: A lamp, light will be extinguished יִֽדְעַ֥ךְ (yiḏ·‘aḵ) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1846: To be extinguished, to expire, be dried up in deepest בֶּאֱשׁ֥וּן (be·’ĕ·šūn) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 380: The little man of the eye, the pupil, ball, the middle darkness. חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃ (ḥō·šeḵ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 2822: The dark, darkness, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness Links Proverbs 20:20 NIVProverbs 20:20 NLT Proverbs 20:20 ESV Proverbs 20:20 NASB Proverbs 20:20 KJV Proverbs 20:20 BibleApps.com Proverbs 20:20 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 20:20 Chinese Bible Proverbs 20:20 French Bible Proverbs 20:20 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 20:20 Whoever curses his father or his mother (Prov. Pro Pr) |
    |