Proverbs 10:27 (BSB)

The fear of the LORD prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be cut short.

From Proverbs 10. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 10:27

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary 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...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments 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.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 10:27: The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened. (m) The time of their prosperity will be short because of their great fall, though they seem to live long.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 10:27: Pro 10:27 From this point the proverbs fall into the series connecting themselves with Pro 10:25 : 27 The fear of Jahve multiplies the days of life; But the years of the godless are shortened. This parable, like Pro 10:25, also corresponds with the O.T. standpoint, having in view the present life.