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Proverbs 20:20

NETBible	The one who curses¹ his father and his mother, his lamp² will be extinguished in the blackest³ darkness.
NIV © biblegateway Pro 20:20	If a man curses his father or mother, his lamp will be snuffed out in pitch darkness.
NASB © biblegateway Pro 20:20	He who curses his father or his mother, His lamp will go out in time of darkness.
NLT © biblegateway Pro 20:20	If you curse your father or mother, the lamp of your life will be snuffed out.
MSG © biblegateway Pro 20:20	Anyone who curses father and mother extinguishes light and exists benighted.
BBE © SABDAweb Pro 20:20	If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night.
NRSV © bibleoremus Pro 20:20	If you curse father or mother, your lamp will go out in utter darkness.
NKJV © biblegateway Pro 20:20	Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp will be put out in deep darkness.
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KJV	Whoso curseth <07043> (8764) his father <01> or his mother <0517>_, his lamp <05216> shall be put out <01846> (8799) in obscure <0380> (8676) <0380> darkness <02822>_. {lamp: or, candle}
NASB © biblegateway Pro 20:20	He who curses <07043> his father <01> or his mother <0517> , His lamp <05216> will go <01846> out in time <0380> of darkness <02822> .
LXXM	(20:9a) kakologountov <2551> V-PAPGS patera <3962> N-ASM h <2228> CONJ mhtera <3384> N-ASF sbesyhsetai <4570> V-FPI-3S lampthr {N-NSM} ai <3588> T-NPF de <1161> PRT korai <2879> N-NPF twn <3588> T-GPM ofyalmwn <3788> N-GPM autou <846> D-GSM oqontai <3708> V-FMI-3P skotov <4655> N-ASN
NET [draft] ITL	The one who curses <07043> his father <01> and his mother <0517> , his lamp <05216> will be extinguished <01846> in the blackest <0380> darkness <02822> .
HEBREW	Ksx <02822> *Nwsab {Nwsyab} <0380> wrn <05216> Kedy <01846> wmaw <0517> wyba <01> llqm (20:20) <07043>

NETBible

The one who curses¹ his father and his mother, his lamp² will be extinguished in the blackest³ darkness.

NET Notes

¹tn The form is the Piel participle of קָלַל (qalal), which means “to be light”; in the Piel stem it means “to take lightly; to treat as worthless; to treat contemptuously; to curse.” Under the Mosaic law such treatment of parents brought a death penalty (Exod 21:17; Lev 20:9; Deut 27:16).

²tn “His lamp” is a figure known as hypocatastasis (an implied comparison) meaning “his life.” Cf. NLT “the lamp of your life”; TEV “your life will end like a lamp.”

²sn For the lamp to be extinguished would mean death (e.g., 13:9) and possibly also the removal of posterity (R. N. Whybray, Proverbs [CBC], 115).

³tc The Kethib, followed by the LXX, Syriac, and Latin, has בְּאִישׁוֹן (bÿ’ishon), “in the pupil of the eye darkness,” the dark spot of the eye. But the Qere has בֶּאֱשׁוּן (be’eshun), probably to be rendered “pitch” or “blackest,” although the form occurs nowhere else. The meaning with either reading is approximately the same – deep darkness, which adds vividly to the figure of the lamp being snuffed out. This individual’s destruction will be total and final.