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 respit, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not to them, as the LORD had said.
Job 21:11They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
Psalms 10:4The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God : God is not in all his thoughts.
Psalms 50:21These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
Isaiah 5:18Woe to them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart-rope:
Isaiah 57:11And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?
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 →