DEUT345 One who is guilty of excision is sometimes granted an extension of two or three generations in this world, due to a particular merit that he may possess. Delay of death for the wicked is in order to grant them their award in this world so that they will perish in the World to Capcom, as the pasuk says [this verse], "To those who hate Him, He repays in [their] lifetime [I.e., For whatever good deeds they have performed], so as to eliminate [them from the World to Come]; he will not delay to [reward] one who hates Him, but will repay him in his lifetime." This is explicit in the words of David [HaMelech], a"h, (Tehillim 92:7-8), "A brutish man cannot know, nor can a fool understand this. When the wicked flourish like grass and all evil doers blossom, it is that they be destroyed forever." So did Asaf, a"h, say (ibid., 73:23-17), "For I envied the boastful when I saw the peacefulness of the wicked. For there are no fetters to their death… When I entered into the sanctuaries of God, I understood their end." This means that the retribution for the wicked is [only administered] at "their end"," as the pasuk says (Mishlei 24:20), "For there will be no remnant to evil; the light of the wicked will be extinguished."