Ecclesiastes
King James Version (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 8:11
“Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.”
King James Version (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 8:11 Context
8There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it. 9All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt. 10And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity. 11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. 12Though 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: 13But 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. 14There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
"Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." Ecclesiastes 8:11 KJV Similar Verses Save
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Translation Details for Ecclesiastes 8:11
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Other Translations for Ecclesiastes 8:11
Bible Commentary for Ecclesiastes 8:11
Wesley's Notes for Ecclesiastes 8:11
8:11 Therefore - God's forbearance makes them presumptuous and secure.
Because sentence against an euill worke is not executed speedily; therefore the heart of the sonnes of men is fully set in them to doe euill.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed quickly, therefore the hearts of the sons of men among them are given fully to do evil.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Because punishment for an evil work comes not quickly, the minds of the sons of men are fully given to doing evil.
- Basic English Bible
When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
- Berean Standard Bible Bible
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to do evil.
- Darby Bible
For because sentence is not speedily pronounced against the evil, the children of men commit evils without any fear.
- Douay-Rheims Bible
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
- English Revised Version
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
- World English Bible