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Eclesiastes 8:11

Listen to Eclesiastes 8:11
11 Porquanto não se executa logo o juízo sobre a má obra, o coração dos filhos dos homens está inteiramente disposto para praticar o mal.

Eclesiastes 8:11 Meaning and Commentary

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because sentence [against] an evil work is not executed
speedily
Any evil work done by magistrates, or others, against which the wrath of God is revealed from heaven, and is threatened with his vengeance; the decree is gone forth, the sentence is passed, God is determined upon punishment; but there is a delay of it, he exercises patience and longsuffering to answer some end of his, both towards his own people and the wicked; as well as to display some of his own perfections; but because so it is, the judgment comes not at once; therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do
evil;
or their "heart is full to do evil" F14; they have not only a fulness of sin in them naturally as is in every man's heart; but they are filled with resolution, boldness, and courage, to commit sin, promising themselves impurity from the seeming delay of justice; such an abuse do they make of the patience and forbearance of God; they become more and more hardened in sin and bent upon the commission of it.


FOOTNOTES:

F14 (er twvel alm) "plenum ad faciendum malum", Pagninus, Montanus; "praegnano ad faciendum malum", Gussetius, p. 469.
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Eclesiastes 8:11 In-Context

9 Tudo isto tenho observado enquanto aplicava o meu coração a toda obra que se faz debaixo do sol; tempo há em que um homem tem domínio sobre outro homem para o seu próprio dano.
10 Vi também os ímpios sepultados, os que antes entravam e saíam do lugar santo; e foram esquecidos na cidade onde haviam assim procedido; também isso é vaidade.
11 Porquanto não se executa logo o juízo sobre a má obra, o coração dos filhos dos homens está inteiramente disposto para praticar o mal.
12 Ainda que o pecador faça o mal cem vezes, e os dias se lhe prolonguem, contudo eu sei com certeza que bem sucede aos que temem a Deus, porque temem diante dele;
13 ao ímpio, porém, não irá bem, e ele não prolongará os seus dias, que são como a sombra; porque ele não teme diante de Deus.
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