11Because 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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Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? …
These 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. …
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, …
And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-13)Solomon, in the beginning of the chapter, had warned us against having any thing to do with seditious subjects; here, in these verses, he encourages us, in reference to the mischief of tyrannical and oppressive rulers, such as he had complained of before, Eccl. 3:16 ; 4:1 . 1. He had observed many such rulers, Eccl. 8:9. In the serious views and reviews he had taken of the children of men and thei…
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