Obey the LORD, and you will live longer. The wicked die before their time. [Good News Translation]
Reverence for God adds hours to each day; so how can the wicked expect a long, good life? [Living Bible]
If you respect the LORD, you will live longer; if you keep doing wrong, your life will be cut short. [Contemporary English Version]
The [reverent] fear of the LORD [worshiping, obeying, serving, and trusting Him with awe-filled respect] prolongs one’s life, But the years of the wicked will be shortened. [Amplified Bible]
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fear: yirah 3374 (Hebrew) reverence, awe; an attitude of awe-filled reverence that always presses toward loving obedience. The heart is struck by God's glory, the mind ackowledges His authority, and the life aligns with His ways. In this way, we see that justice flows from reverence.
wicked: rasha 7563 (Hebrew) guilty, ungodly, evil, condemned, criminal; morally wrong, actively hostile to God's standards, including religious hypocrisy, national corruption, and individual accountability for the rebellion and oppression seen in the neglect of the needy, deceitful speech, unjust gain, and prideful self-reliance.
shortened: qatsar 7114 (Hebrew) reap, harvest; it moves to the inner life of the soul in righteous judgment because what is cut down in the fullness of time is exactly what is sown during the earlier time of planting. Only God, Whose power, grace, and faithfulness are not shortened, can revoke the sentence and change the harvest.
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