Ecclesiastes 7:27

This is what I have learned: I tried to learn more and more about things to try to find out the reason for everything,

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:

In Context

26One thing I learned was that ◄allowing a woman to seduce you/having sex with a woman to whom you are not married► is worse than dying. A woman who tries to seduce men is as dangerous as a trap [MET]. If you allow her to put her arms around you, it will be as though she will be fastening you with chains. Women like that will capture sinful men, but men who please God will escape from such women.

28and I continued to try to learn more, but I could not find all that I was searching for. But one thing that I found out was that among 1,000 people I found one righteous man, but I did not find even one righteous woman.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 1:1I am Solomon, the son of King David. I rule in Jerusalem and people call me ‘The ◄Preacher/Religious Teacher►’.

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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