Ecclesiastes 8:11
When people are not punished quickly for their crimes they are even more determined to do wrong.
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Exodus 8:15But when Pharaoh realized the plague had passed, he chose to become hard and stubborn again, and wouldn't listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had predicted.
Job 21:11They send out their little ones like lambs to play; their children dance around.
Psalms 10:4The wicked are too proud to come to God. In all their thinking they never consider God.
Psalms 50:21I kept quiet when you did these things. You thought I was someone just like you. But now I confront you, and bring my charges against you.
Isaiah 5:18Tragedy is coming to you who drag along your sins behind you with cords made of lies, pulling with ropes your cartful of wickedness.
Isaiah 57:11Who were you scared of, who frightened you so much that you lied to me, didn't remember me, didn't even think about me? Is it because I've been quiet for so long that you don't even 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 →