11 Because sentence against │ It amounts to this, however: an evil work is not executed │ there is no speedy execution of speedily, therefore the heart │ sentence for doing evil, and so of the sons of men is fully │ the heart of the human race is set in them to do evil. │ thus encouraged in them to do │ that evil; (11.) =Which= (standing at the beginning of a period is emphatic, and thus the subject of the whole. ‘It amounts to this’ would render it well) =there is nothing done as a sentence= (occurs Esther i. 20) =of doing the evil speedily, therefore full= is the =heart of the sons of man in them to the doing of an evil= (that is, ‘It amounts to this, there is nothing inflicted as a penalty of doing the evil [_i.e._ evil generally] speedily; on that account filled is the heart of men within them in order to do that evil, the word evil being repeated’). 12 ¶ Though a sinner do │ which, however, is a wicked evil an hundred times, and │ mistake merely because there his _days_ be prolonged, yet │ is time and a prolongation of surely I know that it shall │ impunity; for I am perfectly be well with them that fear │ assured that it must be God, which fear before him: │ well with those who fear the │ Almighty, (12.) =Which= (repeated at the beginning of a clause, equivalent therefore to ‘And it also amounts to this’) =a sinning= (חטא, which the Masorets point as a participle, and the LXX. confirm, rendering by a verb) =doing an evil a hundred= (so stands the text at present, but it clearly was not so in the text which the ancient versions used, all of which read differently, except the Syriac, which follows the Hebrew. The LXX. read either מאן or מעת. Symmachus, Aquila, and Theodotion read ‎‏מות. Jerome remarks the difficulty; and the Syriac Hexapla shows that the text needed emendation at an early time. We believe the LXX. have preserved the right reading; moreover, that they took אריך as a noun in the sense of ‘prolongation,’ like אסיר, ‘a prisoner,’ Genesis xxxix. 20, 22; זעיר, ‘a little,’ Job xxxvi. 2, Isaiah xxviii. 10 and 13; for ‎‏ומאריך is not a participle hiphil, but is really the substantive אריך with מ. When, however, this word was taken as a hiphil, מעת became unintelligible, and was altered by conjecture to מאת, or מות; hence the meaning is not) =caused to be prolonged= (as it stands in the text, but rather ‘and from the prolongation’) =to him=: (emphatic, hence the sense of the passage is, noticing the repetition of the מ, and the fact that אשר also stands at the head of the verse, ‘And it amounts to this as well: a wickedly mistaking one does evil from the time and from the prolongation of it to HIM,’ _i.e._ ‘to the other above cited;’ and hence the LXX. render αὐτῶν, also referring us back to the hypocritical sinners spoken of above. Then follows a reason introduced with) =for in