Ecclesiastes 8:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

An hundred times; frequently and innumerably. His days; the time of his life and prosperity. It shall be well with them that fear God; whereby he implies, both that good men might for a time suffer grievous things from such wicked tyrants, and that it should be very ill with the wicked, which is manifest from the contrary course and condition of good and bad men, and which is expressed in the following words: compare Psalms 2:12. Before him; or, at his presence; who stand in awe of God, and forbear and fear to sin out of a sincere respect and reverence to God.