2All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all. …
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)It has been observed concerning those who have pretended to search for the philosophers’ stone that, though they could never find what they sought for, yet in the search they have hit upon many other useful discoveries and experiments. Thus Solomon, when, in the close of the foregoing chapter, he applied his heart to know the work of God , and took a great deal of pains to search into it, though h…
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