Ecclesiastes 7:29
Which yet my soul seeketh, and I have not found it. One man among a thousand I have found, a woman among them all I have not found.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Genesis 3:6And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delightful to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave to her husband who did eat.
Genesis 6:5And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,
Genesis 11:4And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven: and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.
Psalms 106:29And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was multiplied among them.
Jeremiah 2:12Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and ye gates thereof, be very desolate, saith the Lord.
Ezekiel 22:6Behold the princes of Israel, every one hath employed his arm in thee to shed blood.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 7:24-29
The Evil of Sin. 23 All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me. 24 That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out? 25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness: 26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by… Read the whole commentary →