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Proverbs 24:20 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 20. 20For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.
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Role in This Section
This verse uses two-part parallelism to place “For there shall be no reward to the evil man” beside “the candle of the wicked shall be put out”.
Read It With
- Proverbs 24:19–20
Read Proverbs 24:20 with 24:19–20. Read alone, “For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the…” could turn a compressed observation, warning, comparison, or command into a guarantee or complete policy. The full unit establishes: contributes the claim, image, or instruction “Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked”; by 24:20, it uses two-part parallelism to place “For there shall be no reward to the evil man” beside “the candle of the wicked shall be put out”. Together the unit concentrates on humility, teachability, pride, and reputation, life, death, safety, and the long direction of choices within “Sayings of the wise.”
Why It Needs Context
Read this role inside the complete unit: the verse uses two-part parallelism to place “For there shall be no reward to the evil man” beside “the candle of the wicked shall be put out”. It does not carry a responsible standalone mandate apart from Proverbs 24:19–20.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Proverbs 24:19–20 — Humility, teachability, pride, and reputation — Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou…Sources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV words, canonical order, paragraph flags, supplied-word markup, and complete unit coverage.
Exact location: Proverbs 24:19–20, repository-pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Proverbs
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology used only for the exact unit's lexical, grammatical, parallel, superscription, number-saying, and acrostic questions.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Prov.xml, OSIS 24:19-24:20
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