Ecclesiastes 8:11
Because sentence hath not been done [on] an evil work speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of man is full within them to do evil.
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Exodus 8:15And Pharaoh seeth that there hath been a respite, and he hath hardened his heart, and hath not hearkened unto them, as Jehovah hath spoken.
Job 21:11They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their children skip,
Psalms 10:4The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. 'God is not!' [are] all his devices.
Psalms 50:21These thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array before thine eyes.
Isaiah 5:18Woe [to] those drawing out iniquity with cords of vanity, And as [with] thick ropes of the cart — sin.
Isaiah 57:11And of whom hast thou been afraid, and fearest, That thou liest, and Me hast not remembered? Thou hast not laid [it] to thy heart, Am not I silent, even from of old? And Me thou fearest 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 →