Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:
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Gill's Exposition
Though a sinner do evil an hundred times,.... That is ever so many times, a certain number for an uncertain; though he lives in a continued course of sin, being resolved upon the above consideration…
Barnes' Notes
His days be prolonged - i. e., in his wickedness Ecc 8:8. “I” is emphatic, as if to mark the opposition to the “sons of men” Ecc 8:11.
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…
Cambridge Bible
Though a sinner do evil an hundred times The definite number is used, of course, as in Pro 17:10; or the "hundred years" of Isa 65:20; or the "seventy times seven" of Mat 18:22, for the indefinite.…
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