Contradictions and Paradoxes in Job 18:5

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Job 18:5 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Job 18:5. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of the book of Job, people who do bad things will lose their happiness and joy, like a light being turned off. This means that being unkind or mean won't bring lasting good things.

Job 18:5: Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

Contradiction with Proverbs 13:9

The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

Proverbs 13:9: The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out. [lamp: or, candle]

Contradiction with Proverbs 24:20

For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.

Proverbs 24:20: For there shall be no reward to the evil [man]; the candle of the wicked shall be put out. [candle: or, lamp]

Contradiction with Job 21:17

How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

Job 21:17: How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and [how oft] cometh their destruction upon them! [God] distributeth sorrows in his anger. [candle: or, lamp]

Contradiction with Psalm 37:5-6

Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

Psalm 37:5-6: Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring [it] to pass. [Commit...: Heb. Roll thy way upon]

Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 8:12-13

Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him: But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

Ecclesiastes 8:12-13: Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his [days] be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:
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