Ecclesiastes 8:11
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
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Exodus 8:15But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart, and did not hearken to them, as LORD had spoken.
Job 21:11They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
Psalms 10:4The wicked man, in the pride of his countenance, [says], He will not require [it]. All his thoughts are, There is no God.
Psalms 50:21These things thou have done, and I kept silence. Thou thought that I was altogether such a one as thyself. [But] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.
Isaiah 5:18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope,
Isaiah 57:11And of whom have thou been afraid and in fear, that thou lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? Have I not held my peace even of long time, and thou do not fear me?
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 8:10-14
The Evil of Oppressive Rulers. 9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt. 10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity. 11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. 12 Though a sinner do… Read the whole commentary →