Proteins are quite stable. The lifetime of a peptide bond in aqueous solution is nearly 1000 years; however, the free energy of hydrolysis of proteins is negative and quite large. How do you account for the stability of the peptide bond in light of the fact that hydrolysis releases so much energy

i just calculated it all out, and not including weekends, and all the different days off. as of this school year (2018-2019) students are spending 2198 hours in school this year

a. energy is absorbed in the reaction.

if in a given reaction the energy of products is greater than the energy of reactants it means that reaction is endothermic and during the reaction, the energy is absorbed by reactants. in an endothermic reaction, the products have more stored chemical energy than the reactants. and in this reaction the reactants are more stable than products before the compounds with less energy are always more stable.