Ecclesiastes 8:11
Because sentence against an euill worke is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to doe euill.
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Exodus 8:15But when Pharaoh sawe that hee had rest giuen him, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not vnto them, as the Lord had said.
Job 21:11They send forth their children like sheepe, and their sonnes dance.
Psalms 10:4The wicked is so proude that hee seeketh not for God: hee thinketh alwayes, There is no God.
Psalms 50:21These things hast thou done, and I held my tongue: therefore thou thoughtest that I was like thee: but I will reproue thee, and set them in order before thee.
Isaiah 5:18Woe vnto them, that draw iniquitie with cordes of vanitie, and sinne, as with cart ropes:
Isaiah 57:11And whome diddest thou reuerence or feare, seeing thou hast lyed vnto me, and hast not remembred me, neither set thy minde thereon? is it not because I holde my peace, and that of long time? therefore thou fearest not 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 →