Proverbs 24:20 (BSB)

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

From Proverbs 24. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 24:20

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 24:19-20: Here, 1. He repeats the caution he had before given against envying the pleasures and successes of wicked man in their wicked ways. This he quotes from his father David, Psa 37:1. We must not in any case fret ourselves, or make ourselves uneasy, whatever God does in his providence how disagreeable soever it is to our sentiments, interests, and expectations, we must acquiesce in it.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 24:20: My son, fear thou the Lord, and the king,.... First the Lord, and then the king; and such as fear the Lord are generally loyal to their king; the fear of God includes love to him, reverence of him, faith in him, submission to him, and the whole worship of him, inward and outward, attended with holiness of life and conversation: and the king, who...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 24:20: candle--or, "prosperity"; it shall come to an end (Pro 13:9; Pro 20:20).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 24:19-20: Pro 24:19-20 Warning against envying the godless for their external prosperity: 19 Be not enraged on account of evil-doers, Envy not the godless; 20 For the wicked men shall have no future, The light of the godless is extinguished. Ver. 19 is a variation of Psa 37:1; cf. also Pro 3:21 (where with בכל־דרכיו following the traditional תבחר is more appropriate than תתחר, which Hupfeld would here insert).