Ecclesiastes 7:28

Which my soul sought after, but I found not: 1 For I have found one man of a thousand; 1 But a woman in all these I have not found. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

In Context

27Behold, this have I found, said the Preacher, 1 Seeking by one at a time to find out the account, 1

29But, behold, this have I found, 1 That God made man upright; 1 But they have sought out many devices. 1 Who knows the wise? 1 And who knows the interpretation of a saying?

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Cross References

1 Kings 11:1And King Solomon was a lover of women. And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. And he took strange women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh, Moabitish, Ammonitish women, Syrians and Edomites, Hittites, and Amorites;

Psalms 12:1For the end, a Psalm of David. 1 How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me? forever? 1 How long wilt thou turn away thy face from me? 1

Isaiah 26:9which our soul longs for: my spirit seeks thee very early in the morning, O God, for thy commandments are a light on the earth: learn righteousness, ye that dwell upon the earth.

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 →

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