Proverbs 10:27 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁷The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

Proverbs 10:27 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 9:11
For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
Proverbs 3:2
For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
Psalms 91:16
With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
Job 15:32-33
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. …
Psalms 21:4
He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 27-28)

Observe, 1. Religion lengthens men’s lives and crowns their hopes. What man is he that loves life? Let him fear God, and that will secure him from many things that would prejudice his life, and secure to him life enough in this world and eternal life in the other; the fear of the Lord will add days more than was expected, will add them endlessly, will prolong them to the days of eternity. What man…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 27)

27. (Compare Pr 9:11; Psa 55:23).