קהלת 8:11

Hebrew Modern Translation

אשר אין נעשה פתגם מעשה הרעה מהרה על כן מלא לב בני האדם בהם לעשות רע׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
אשר אין נעשה פתגם מעשה הרעה מהרה על כן מלא לב בני האדם בהם לעשות רע

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
אֲשֶׁר֙ אֵין־נַעֲשָׂ֣ה פִתְגָ֔ם מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה הָרָעָ֖ה מְהֵרָ֑ה עַל־כֵּ֡ן מָלֵ֞א לֵ֧ב בְּֽנֵי־הָאָדָ֛ם בָּהֶ֖ם לַעֲשֹׂ֥ות רָֽע ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
אֲשֶׁר אֵין־נַעֲשָׂה פִתְגָם מַעֲשֵׂה הָרָעָה מְהֵרָה עַל־כֵּן מָלֵא לֵב בְּֽנֵי־הָאָדָם בָּהֶם לַעֲשׂוֹת רָֽע ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sentence: Exodus 8:15, Exodus 8:32, Job 21:11-15, Psalms 10:6, Psalms 50:21, Psalms 50:22, Isaiah 5:18, Isaiah 5:19, Isaiah 26:10, Isaiah 57:11, Jeremiah 48:11, Matthew 24:49, Matthew 24:50, Romans 2:4, Romans 2:5, 2 Peter 3:3-10

fully: Jeremiah 42:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 9:34 - saw Joshua 8:6 - They flee Judges 20:34 - knew not 2 Samuel 20:22 - And Joab 1 Kings 2:6 - let 1 Kings 2:24 - put 1 Kings 14:14 - but what Job 24:12 - yet God Job 24:23 - whereon Psalms 4:2 - O Psalms 10:11 - God Psalms 55:19 - no changes Psalms 73:6 - Therefore Ecclesiastes 9:3 - also Ecclesiastes 9:12 - man Isaiah 42:14 - long time Jeremiah 34:11 - General Jeremiah 41:15 - escaped Ezekiel 11:9 - and will Daniel 4:29 - end Amos 6:3 - put Amos 9:10 - The evil Malachi 2:17 - Where Matthew 24:48 - My Romans 9:22 - endured 2 Peter 3:4 - where

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Because sentence [against] an evil work is not executed speedily,.... Any evil work done by magistrates, or others, against which the wrath of God is revealed from heaven, and is threatened with his vengeance; the decree is gone forth, the sentence is passed, God is determined upon punishment; but there is a delay of it, he exercises patience and longsuffering to answer some end of his, both towards his own people and the wicked; as well as to display some of his own perfections; but because so it is, the judgment comes not at once;

therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil; or their "heart is full to do evil" n; they have not only a fulness of sin in them naturally as is in every man's heart; but they are filled with resolution, boldness, and courage, to commit sin, promising themselves impurity from the seeming delay of justice; such an abuse do they make of the patience and forbearance of God; they become more and more hardened in sin and bent upon the commission of it.

n מלא לעשות רע "plenum ad faciendum malum", Pagninus, Montanus; "praegnano ad faciendum malum", Gussetius, p. 469.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 8:11. Because sentence — פתגם pithgam, a Divine decree or declaration. This is no Hebrew, but a mere Chaldee word, and occurs only in the later books of the Bible - Esther, Ezra and Daniel, and nowhere else but in this place. Because God does not immediately punish every delinquency, men think he disregards evil acts; and therefore they are emboldened to sin on. So this longsuffering of God, which leadeth to repentance, is abused so as to lead to farther crimes! When men sin against the remedy of their salvation, how can they escape perdition?