Ecclesiastes 7:28

This is what I am still looking for, but I have not found it. I did find one righteous man among a thousand, but a woman among all those I did not find.

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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

27“Consider what I have discovered,” says the Teacher. “I have been adding one discovery to another in order to find an explanation of reality.

29I have discovered only this: That God created humanity upright, but they have gone away looking for many difficulties.”

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Cross References

1 Kings 11:1Now King Solomon loved many foreign women including the daughter of Pharaoh—women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.

Psalms 12:1Help, Yahweh, for the godly have disappeared; 1 the faithful have vanished. 1

Isaiah 26:9I have longed for you in the night; yes, my spirit within me seeks you earnestly. 1 For when your judgments come on the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn about righteousness. 1

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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