Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
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Gill's Exposition
But it shall not be well with the wicked,.... It shall be ill with him; more is designed than is expressed, Isa 3:11; in life they have no solid peace and comfort; at death they will be turned into at…
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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow The words seem at first in direct contradiction to the admission of the previous verse. But it is of the nature of the method of the book to…
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