17I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-22)Solomon is still showing that every thing in this world, without piety and the fear of God, is vanity. Take away religion, and there is nothing valuable among men, nothing for the sake of which a wise man would think it worth while to live in this world. In these verses he shows that power (than which there is nothing men are more ambitious of) and life itself (than which there is nothing men are…
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