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Proverbs 10:27-28

The good man respects God. He will have a long life. He will be happy.

The evil man refuses God’s wisdom. The evil man will die soon. His plans will fail. He will achieve nothing.

These verses are rather general. Some good people die young. Some evil people live long. Solomon is explaining simple principles. More complex explanations are elsewhere in the Bible. We must learn simple principles before we can understand complex explanations.

This is the principle. A good person has a good life. An evil person has a bad life. This principle is enough, for now.

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See also Proverbs 10:27-28 in other biblical comments:

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    II. THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON: CHAPTER S 10--19:19 Beginning with the tenth chapter we have the collection of proverbs given by inspiration through Solomon. In this section the personal address, “My son...

  • 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 wicked. T...

  • 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 Isaiah 50:...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Comp. Proverbs 3:2....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT Proverbs 10:23-32 23. It is as sport to a fool to do wickedness; And so is wisdom to a man of understanding. 24. The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him; And the desire of the righte...

  • 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 assigned to...

  • 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 explan...

  • 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 fulf...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יִרְאַ֣ת יְ֭הוָה תֹּוסִ֣יף יָמִ֑ים וּ שְׁנֹ֖ות...

  • 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 external w...

  • 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 lips of...

  • 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 indeed...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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....

  • 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 li...

  • 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 death...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole 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 to li...

  • 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 a...

  • 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 m...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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....

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    PROLONGETH: _ Heb._ addeth...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1 The comfort of parents much depends on their children; and this suggests to both, motives to their duties. Proverbs 10:2; Proverbs 10:3. Though the righteous may be poor, the Lord will not suffer h...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The 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 17:22,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 10:27 fear H3374 LORD H3068 prolongs H3254 (H8686) days H3117 years H8141 wicked H7563 shortened H7114

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE BLESSING OF YHWH, WHICH COMES AS A RESULT OF THE FEAR OF YHWH, MAKES RICH WITHOUT THE BAD CONSEQUENCES THAT CAN RESULT FROM RICHES, AND PRODUCES TRUE JOY, WHILST THE FOOL SUFFERS THE WORST POSSIBL...

  • 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 initial...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    FEAR (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 19:9). _...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The blessedness of the ways of righteousness and the folly of the ways of wickedness. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon. CONCLUSION: The head of the just man will be crowned with the blessings both...

  • 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 had a...

  • 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. Str...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 10:27 As a general rule, THE FEAR OF THE LORD PROLONGS LIFE because of the Lord’s blessing (compare Proverbs 9:11

  • The 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. A go...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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 the words, "a wise son....

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter 10 we have individual proverbs. Most of these individual proverbs are in contrast, where they are contrasting the wise with the foolish, or the wicked with the righteous. Or the diligen...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ecclesiastes 7:17; Jeremiah 17:11; Job 15:32; Job 15:33; Job 22:15;...

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