Ecclesiastes 7:29

Ecclesiastes 7:29

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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The "only" way of accounting for the scarcity of even comparatively upright men and women is that, whereas God made man upright, they (men) have, etc. The only account to be "found" of the origin of evil, the great mystery of theology, is that given in Holy Writ (Gen. 2:1-3:24). Among man's "inventions" was the one especially referred to in Ecclesiastes 7:26, the bitter fruits of which Solomon experienced, the breaking of God's primeval marriage law, joining one man to "one" woman (Matthew 19:4-6). "Man" is singular, namely, Adam; "they," plural, Adam, Eve, and their posterity.

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