Proverbs 10:27 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The fear of the LORD prolongethg days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened. ”

• Proverbs 10:27 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked (m) shall be shortened. (m) The time of their prosperity will be short because of their great fall, though they seem to live long.

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• Proverbs 10:27 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Proverbs 10:2 ( cf. Psalms 3:7 ). righteousness: the growth of the conception of righteousness is an important subject. As in the Pss., there is a specific class the righteous opposed to the...

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• Proverbs 10:27 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  The fear of the LORD. See note on Proverbs 1:7 . prolongeth days . increaseth days; not necessarily in number, but in greater value and importance. shortened . cut down, or made little, as in...

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• Proverbs 10:27 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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

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• Proverbs 10:27 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened. The fear of the Lord prolongeth days - namely, the days of the righteous, beyond the term of life assigne...

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• Proverbs 10:27 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Here we reach the first collection of what were supposed to be Solomon's proverbs. Most of them consist of two lines parallel to each other. The parallelism is one of contrast, or agreement, or expla...

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• Proverbs 10:27 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The fear of the Lord prolongeth days. — The special Old Testament blessing for obedience (comp. Proverbs 9:11 ), often fulfilled now, too, in the case of those who live on to old age, in the quiet...

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• Proverbs 10:27 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER 11 WEALTH "Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death." Proverbs 10:2 "O'er weening statesmen have full long relied On fleets and armies and exter...

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• Proverbs 10:27 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Blessing of the Lord Maketh Rich Proverbs 10:17-32 Let us specially avoid talking too much. Silence is golden. See Proverbs 10:19 . Yet the tongue of the just is as choice silver and the...

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• Proverbs 10:27 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Here begin the proverbs proper. In this collection they are antithetical, They present a sharp contrast between wisdom and folly in the outworking of such in practical life. Seeing that this is indee...

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• Proverbs 10:27 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin. He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth. He that hideth hatred with lying l...

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• Proverbs 10:27 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  LONG LIFE AND PROMISED BLESSING ‘The fear of the Lord prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.’ Proverbs 10:27 All men love life: there is not one who really desires...

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• Proverbs 10:27 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The fear of the Lord prolongeth days ,.... Not beyond the time fixed in the unalterable purposes and decrees of God, Job 14:5 ; but longer than some others, or than those that fear the Lord expect...

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• Proverbs 10:27 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened. Ver. 27. The fear of the Lord prolongeth days. ] Heb., Addeth days, viz., beyond expectation or likelihood in...

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• Proverbs 10:27 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The fear of the Lord prolongeth days For it gives those who are influenced by it a title to the promise of long life, as well as to other promises; it gladdens their hearts, which does good like a...

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• Proverbs 10:27 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        27 The fear of the L ORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.   28 The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish....

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• Proverbs 10:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Prolongeth days; partly because it gives them a title to the promise of long life, as well as to other promises; partly because it gladdeth the heart, which doth good like a medicine, Proverbs 17...

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• Proverbs 10:27 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  A Collection Of Solomon's Proverbs ( Proverbs 10:1 to Proverbs 29:27 ). Solomon's presentation of The Book of Proverbs has followed the pattern of much Wisdom literature. This commenced with the...

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• Proverbs 10:27 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 10:27 LONG LIFE This verse must be looked at— I. Generally . The fear of the Lord prolongs life because, other things being equal, godliness tends to bodily health...

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• Proverbs 10:27 - Scofield Reference Notes

  fear ( See Scofield) - ( Psalms 19:9 ).

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• Proverbs 10:27 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Proverbs 10:1 . The Proverbs of Solomon. The nine preseding Chapter s may be regarded as a vestibule to the temple. Wisdom has been personified, and folly thrown into the darker shades. We have ha...

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• Proverbs 10:27 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The fear of the Lord prolongeth days. Long life a promised blessing We may wish for one another long life. Every one wishes it for himself. It is a mistake to regard this wish as an infirmity....

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• Proverbs 10:27 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Verse 1-22:16 Part III . FIRST GREAT COLLECTION (375) OF SOLOMONIC PROVERBS . Verse 1-12:28 First section. The sections are noted by their commencing usually with t...

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• Proverbs 10:27 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  v. 27. The fear of the Lord prolongeth days, adding to their number; but the years of the wicked shall be shortened, their span of life will not reach the normal length.

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• Proverbs 10:27 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ecclesiastes 7:17 ; Jeremiah 17:11 ; Job 15:32 ; Job 15:33 ; Job 22:15 ; Job 22:16 ; Luke 12:20 ; Proverbs 3:16 ; Proverbs 3:2 ; Proverbs 9:11 ; Psalms 21:4 ; Psalms 34:11-13 ; Psalms 55...

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