Proverbs 10:27

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

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
fear	יִרְאַ֣ת yir.'At	H3374	fear (also used as infinitive) · noun, common feminine singular construct
LORD	יְ֭הוָה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
prolongeth	תּוֹסִ֣יף to.Sif	H3254	to add or augment (often adverbial · verb, hiphil imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular
days	יָמִ֑ים ya.Mim	H3117	a day (as the warm hours) · noun, common masculine plural absolute
years	וּשְׁנ֖וֹת u.she.Not	H8141	a year (as a revolution of time) · conjunction + noun, common feminine plural construct
wicked	רְשָׁעִ֣ים re.sha.'Im	H7563	morally wrong · noun, common masculine plural absolute
shortened	תִּקְצֹֽרְנָה tik.Tzo.re.nah	H7114	to dock off · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine plural

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Proverbs 9:11 For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
Proverbs 3:2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
Psalms 91:16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
Job 15:32-33 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
Job 22:15-16 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
Psalms 21:4 He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
Psalms 34:11-13 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
Psalms 55:23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:27-28

Observe, 1. Religion lengthens men's lives and crowns their hopes. What man is he that loves life? Let him fear God, and that will secure him from many things that would prejudice his life, and secure to him life enough in this world and eternal life in the other; the fear of the Lord will add days more than was expected, will add them endlessly, will prolong them to the days of eternity. What man is he that would see good days? Let him be religious, and then his days shall not only be many, but happy, very happy as well as very many, for the hope of the righteous shall be gladness; they shall have what they hope for, to their unspeakable satisfaction. It is something future and unseen that…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 10:27

(Compare Pro 9:11; Psa 55:23).

John Gill on Proverbs 10:27

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 live; or longer than, according to the course of nature, and the weakness of their constitutions, it could be thought they should live. Long life is promised to them that fear the Lord; godliness has the promise of this life and of that to come; the fear of the Lord is the means of preserving persons from those things which are pernicious to the health of men, and so of prolonging their days; as well as it has length of days, for ever and ever, even eternal life, annexed to it; see Psalm 34:11; b…

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Keil & Delitzsch on Proverbs 10:27

21 The lips of the righteous edify many; But fools die through want of understanding.

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Proverbs 10:25

The Church Fathers

Fear of the Lord will prolong days, etc. Those who serve God faithfully will be gifted with eternal light; but those who are devoted to impiety lose the goods they loved along with this life.
— Bede, Commentary on Proverbs

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Dictionary and topics

Poetry — Has been well defined as “the measured language of emotion.” Hebrew poetry deals almost exclusively with the great question of man’s relation to God. “Guilt, condemnation, punishment, pardon,…
Fear, Godly · Those who have: Days of, prolonged — Those who have: Days of, prolonged
Longevity · 3:11-14; — 3:11-14;
Reverence · 4:10;5:29;6:2,13;10:12,20,21;13:4;14:23;28:49,58; — 4:10;5:29;6:2,13;10:12,20,21;13:4;14:23;28:49,58;

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:27-28

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 10:27

John Gill on Proverbs 10:27

Keil & Delitzsch on Proverbs 10:27

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Proverbs 10:25

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:27-28

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 10:27

John Gill on Proverbs 10:27

Keil & Delitzsch on Proverbs 10:27

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Proverbs 10:25

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Rashi on Proverbs 10:25