Ecclesiastes 7:28

Ecclesiastes 7:28

26 ^aAnd I find more bitter than death
The woman whose heart is snares and nets,
Whose hands are fetters.
¹He who pleases God shall escape from her,
But the sinner shall be trapped by her.

27 Here is what I have found,” says ^athe Preacher,
“Adding one thing to the other to find out the reason,

28 Which my soul still seeks but I cannot find:
^aOne man among a thousand I have found,
But a woman among all these I have not found.

29 Truly, this only I have found:
^aThat God made man upright,
But ^bthey have sought out many schemes.”

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Rather, referring to his past experience, "Which my soul sought further, but I found not."

one man—that is, worthy of the name, "man," "upright"; not more than one in a thousand of my courtiers (Job 33:23; Psalms 12:1). Jesus Christ alone of men fully realizes the perfect ideal of "man." "Chiefest among ten thousand" (Song of Solomon 5:10). No perfect "woman" has ever existed, not even the Virgin Mary. Solomon, in the word "thousand," alludes to his three hundred wives and seven hundred concubines. Among these it was not likely that he should find the fidelity which one true wife pays to one husband. Connected with Ecclesiastes 7:26, not an unqualified condemnation of the sex, as Proverbs 12:4; Proverbs 31:10, etc., prove.

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