Proverbs 20:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Or his mother, Heb. and his mother; which is used for or, Exodus 12:5 Leviticus 6:3, and elsewhere. His lamp; his comfort and happiness, his name and memory, which are oft compared in Scripture to a lamp or light; shall be put out in obscure darkness; shall utterly perish; he shall die childless, and with ignominy.

Proverbs 20:20

20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lampf shall be put out in obscure darkness.