Pro 24:20 | NETfull | STEP | for the evil person has no future, and the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.

Proverbs 24:20

20 for the evil person has no future, ^{▼▼ Heb “there is no end [i.e., future] for the evil.”}
and the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished. ^{▼▼ 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.}